> > Exactly. I haven't seen a decent one so far (except for NeXT/Apple > WebObjects). So if you want to compare O/R with text editors (like it > was done before in this thread), imagine a world with "vi" and "notepad" > as the only 2 choices. Emacs and MS Word > 6.0 are yet to be invented. >
Wow... A world without Word >6.0? Where do I sign up!!!??? > > > > Torque is nice, but you have to specify the database first in the XML. > > Usually, I prefer to code Java instead of XML. If it was the other way > > around, it would have been our primary choice. No flames please: different > > use cases call for different tools. Torque would have been perfect for a set > > of tables which you can define completely from the beginning, and make a few > > changes along the way. In our case, the set of tables was meant to grow and > > be expandable. > > This doesn't have to be hard either way. On my last project with > WebObjects, database have grown from 15 to 100 tables along the way (in > about 9 month). With a simple 1 screen GUI tool and a built in class > generator we *never* had problems synchronizing (or rather evolving) the > code base. Products like WebObjects or Cayenne, though they internally > work off of the model file (XML), still make your code easy to change. > But of course this varies from product to product. > > > -- > ~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~- > - Andrei (a.k.a. Andrus) Adamchik > Home of Cayenne - O/R Persistence Framework > http://objectstyle.org/cayenne/ > email: andrus-jk at objectstyle dot org > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -- http://www.superlinksoftware.com http://jakarta.apache.org/poi - port of Excel/Word/OLE 2 Compound Document format to java http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/bugParade/bugs/4487555.html - fix java generics! The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote. -Ambassador Kosh -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
