On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, Jeremy Quinn wrote:
>
> On Tuesday, July 15, 2003, at 09:53 PM, Antonio Gallardo wrote:
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> > After checking all the docs. For forms: I cannot decide between JXForms
> > and Woody? Please I need an advise from the gurus in forms.
>
> I have not tried Woody (Sorry Bruno).
>
> I did however decide quite early on to use JXTemplate rather than
> JXForm as I found I was constantly having to work around stuff in
> JXForm that did not suit my approach.
>
> JXForm is particularly good at the multi-page wizard-type scenario, if
> your needs are different, you may find it too restrictive. This is not
> a criticism though!!!
I also prefer the more common way of JXTemplate.
> > I am still trying to find other ways similars to Hibernate since it
> > looks
> > like Hibernate is not a favorite player because of his LGPL license. :(
>
> Yea, I know, it is a shame, but we do have a workaround now, in terms
> of the independant project repository at cocoondev.org, which could
> legitimately be used for blocks that contain LGPL code.
>
> > I know there is a jakarta project related to database stuff. DBCP is
> > just
> > a Database connection pool. but,
>
> I went straight for Hibernate and did not even investigate the Apache
> stuff I am afraid. I just took the word of some peers who said,
> Hibernate is cool and easy.
I wondering why everyone prefer Hibernate. I use Castors JDO-like
implementation a lot, and I love it. You also have the benefit that
you can serialize the object to XML. And has a BSD-like license,
which is compatible with the Apache license, I think.
I wrote InputModules to make the access easier, and map them to
JXPath functions. Using a mixture of the JXTemplate- and
JPathTransformer, I can use Castor like this
cocoon.xconf:
<component-instance class="modules.JDOInputModule" name="article"
query="SELECT article FROM model.Article article WHERE article.id=$$"
database="cocoon"/>
<component-instance class="modules.JDOInputModule" name="articles"
query="SELECT article FROM model.Article article"
database="cocoon"/>
xxx.xml:
<jx:variable name="article" select="getArticle(request/id)"/>
<jx:value-of select="$article/title"/>
<jx:for-each select="getArticles()">
<jx:value-of select="title"/>
</jx:for-each>
<jx:copy-of select="$article/descriptor"/> <!-- produces XML data -->
Stephan Michels.
