Rudi Vankeirsbilck wrote:
>Hi,I have not used TOPLink before but I was planning to do so in the future.
>Thank you for your remarks. I agree that those restrictions are not
>acceptable. This shows that the TOPLink product is not mature enough.
I agree TOPLink does have some limitations, but they are relatively easy to live with.
And, as has been pointed out before, some of them will disappear with JDK 1.2.
We have evaluated a number of O-R mapping products and concluded that only TOPLink had
all the features we needed. Flexible mapping strategies to allow mapping to a legacy
database was one of them. We also found TOPLink was the least intrusive of the tools
we looked at.
As for maturity: I understand TOPLink Java is based on a TOPLink Smalltalk product
that had already been used by the Object People for several years. The Java version
GA'd in spring 1998 if I remember well, we have been using it since then. We _do_
think the product is mature enough.
My favourite missing TOPLink feature: to be able to generate a TOPLink mapping layer
from an XMI file (which in turn can be generated from Rational Rose and other
modellers). I hope the Object People will jump on the XMI bandwagon soon...
Regards, Luc Peerdeman.
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