RE: Advantages of J2EE w. Struts vs .NET ASP.NET

2004-09-14 Thread Nail, Evan Burke
Good Points.. One thing I might add is that the Title mentioned J2EE w Struts vs .Net and I don't think this is a fair comparison. Struts has a steep learning curve but when used you have a good MVC type model with all the benefits. IMHO (I'm also 98% J2EE) With .Net Out of the box, you wont

RE: [OT]: Best book J2EE Design patterns

2004-09-09 Thread Nail, Evan Burke
Another good book is J2EE Design and Development by Rod Johnson http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0764543857/qid=1094730665/sr=8-1/ref=pd_cps_1/102-7925651-9470545?v=glance&s=books&n=507846 It references the core patterns book and gives some real world examples of a few of the most c

RE: Hibernate VS ibatis, which is better?

2004-09-01 Thread Nail, Evan Burke
I've just looked at Hibernate a little so I am no expert, but it was pretty powerful. But we really didn't need most of what it did, so we went with iBatis. Although I doubt I am pronouncing it right even now. We just wanted something to map beans to sql and didn't want to worry about a new QL