Hey guys,
I've now posted a news item on the website, and fixed up the download
links to the 1.0 release.
The past two days I've given a couple of seminars on Qi4j in association
with the JFokus conference in Stockholm. The seminars focused entirely
on the issues with using POJOs for domain modeling, and how using
composites and mixins brings a much better approach to it all. The
audience was very familiar with what I described, and agreed with all
the issues and examples I presented, so there wasn't much resistance to
the conclusions.
The main resistance is the continued reliance on relational databases
for storage, which seems to be an issue we really need to address in
order to get more widespread usage. Yes, it is suboptimal, yes it will
be more work to use, but there it is. Also, several people told me not
to try and base our RDBMS support on Hibernate, as they claimed it was
basically broken in terms of semantics. Some horror stories were
provided, and I can sympathize with them.
So we're still back at what to do for RDBMS? Hand-coding or something
like iBatis seems like the best option. What others are there?
In any case, GREAT job everyone! It's nice to have this out the door, so
we can start focusing on how to get more people to try it out, and get
more experience with how to best use it.
/Rickard
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