> But all in all I'm not convinced that this effort really worth it. > AFAIC I still don;t get the whole point of integrating Record/Field > with JPA.
Over the time i've been working with lift there has been much discussion about unified validation, and hooking various persistence backend's. I remember a particular discussion that was had about mapper, and how appropriate it was for use within a large applications, and DPP suggested that mapper was good up until about 20 database tables - I think the phrase was "quick and dirty". At the time we had no JPA support what-so-ever and Record seemed like a far away ideal which promised a way of hooking in tech's like JPA and still get all the cool lift features. Now we have Record, it seems like we wouldn't have made a great step forward if mapper is still the only first line persistence mechanism and we still have no abstract way to handle validation? I know record brings a bunch of stuff to the table and its not just "mapper on steroids", but it seems like we should be able to provide a way of hooking Record into JPA as there will no doubt be a lot of users that have existing Hibernate and/or JPA tiers and want to use lift - especially within the enterprise space. I cant really suggest a way forward, as I'm no JPA expert, but what i can do is argue for its support and how important it is we provide some level of integration. We know that JPA is a lot more complicated to implement anyway right now in lift, but perhaps we look for a staged approach of implementation? Start by providing something loose, that requires the user to jump through some more hoops, then as time progresses upgrade that support to something more streamlined (and i.e. more complex for us to create)? Just my two cents :) Cheers, Tim --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lift" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
