Some people to which I demonstrated Woody and Flowscript asked me how we can directly map forms to a database.
Yeah, I know that architecturally having intermediate domain objects is better, but it seems a bit overkill when what you need is just a simple CRUD front-end to a database and have no additional logic.
Writing a SQL binding for forms seems a complicated beast to me (maybe I'm wrong as I'm not very fluent in SQL), so I was thinking of using tools that would to the dirty work for me.
And here comes (Antonio, you'll be happy!!) OJB, which AFAIK can persist DynaBeans [1].
So what about adding a getBean() to the widget interface that would return a DynaBean wrapper of the form widgets? A simple OJB mapping file and voil�, persistant forms!
What do you think?
Sylvain
[1] http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/beanutils/api/org/apache/commons/beanutils/DynaBean.html
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