From: Ugo Cei [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Reinhard Pötz wrote: > > To understand this correctly: Does e.g. Hibernate give you > this typed > > "object repository"? You only have to deal with beans and all the > > persistence stuff is done for you "by magic". > > No. You still have to open a Session to your database and use its > methods to load and store objects. What Hibernate (and other > ORM tools > like JDO, if I'm not mistaken) gives you is that now you are working > with POJOs (Plain Old Java Objects) instead of with > ResultSets or with > EJBs. You also map relations to object references and > Collections (Maps, > Sets, Lists) and so you manage your objects in an "idiomatic" > way that > is more friendly to us Java programmers.
Ok. Then I have to rephrase my questions more open: What is an "object repository" in this sense? Cheers, Reinhard
