Would appreciate any help. We are looking at Torque (5 hours on friday night
and still no correct installation!) which isnt a Java standard, and we want
asfar as possible, to implement a solution using skills that we are likely
to sell again. I must admit I was a little diconcerted to read a
recomendation here to use another Object relational mapping tool such as
Hibernate ? Is this a common consensus. ?
This might sound obnoxious, but before diving into a big project dependent on any new technology do a spike (vertical implementation of a narrow slice of the functionality intended to be thrown away) with that technology in order to A) evaluate it for your needs, and B) gain some familiarity with it.
The surest path to project failure is New Project + New Technology + New People, from the sound of it you have at least New Project + New Technology. Varying just one at a time is a good thing.
Hibernate is a good product, I definitely recommend evaluating it. OJB is a better product (IMHO), and I definitely recommend evaluating it as well =) They offer pretty much identical functionality -- OJB is just more flexible in my (limited) experience, and better able to handle weird situations (ie, mixed instance variable, JavaBean property, and DynaBean property persistence on the same class).
On Java Standards - if you want a Sun Certified Java Standard O-R mapping tool you need to go Entity Bean or JDO.
-Brian
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