On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 08:55:00 -0500, Philippe Laflamme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As you probably know, SQL in iBatis is built using XML. Tags are used to > test different conditions on the parameter object. So for example, you can > test whether a value in the parameter is null, equal to some value and so > on. These tags allows for building complex SQL queries that are easy to > read, understand and especially maintain. > > So instead of concatenating Java String objects to build complex queries > with a bunch of if-then-else and switch-case statements, you build the query > by specifying when/how certain blocks should be evaluated.
Cool, thanks, did not know I could use condition tags. With all this XML parsing and checking, I suppose the overhead still is pretty negligible compared to the execution of the statement right? Talking about performance, do you know if prepared statements are being used? Oliver
