Hi Albert, Well, i'm not one of the masters of iBATIS but i'm going to try to answer your questions. Brandon, Larry and Clinton, please, you can slap me if i say something stupid. ;-) 1. DAO framework and SQL Maps framework are different things. You can use both to leverage your application design, but, you can use anyone by itself. For example, i wrote once an application that used only DAO framework because i was not fetching data from a relational database but from an LDAP data source. Doing so, DAO framework gave me a invaluable feature: decoupling. No matter from where i was fetching data, my application would work the same way ever.
2. Clinton is the right guy to answer this question. But, as far as i know, JPetsore uses DAO framework too. But i can be wrong (with a large probability ;-) ). There is a simple tutorial that can help to make some points clearer to you. It was written by a great guy and friend of Brandon, Larry and Clinton. His name is Rick. Look it here: http://www.reumann.net/struts/main.do. Pick the Struts with iBATIS tutorial. That was my 2 cents! Cheers, Daniel Silva. --- "Albert L. Sapp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1. Can someone explain to me how the DAO framework enhances the use of SQL > Maps framework or is the DAO framework a replacement for SQL Maps > framework? Both of them seem to be used as transaction managers. All I am > wanting to do is some transaction processing against a Oracle database > using a JDBC connection and SQL statements. > > 2. When I look at the source code files for JPetStore, I can seem to > follow what is happening. It seems to only use SQL Maps. Am I correct? > > Once I know what the relationship between the two is, I may be able to > figure out how to complete the project I am working on. Right now, none of > our dao.xml or sql-maps.xml files look very close to the pet store samples. > > Thanks, > > Al > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - now with 250MB free storage. Learn more. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250
