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I've been using Oracle BC4J last spring. My experiences were rather bad -
basically the product was very immature at that time, and I my opinion not
ready for production use.
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Anyway, looking back I think it could work well with Struts. Struts could
replace Oracle Components called webbeans - I think were the weakest part of
BC4J framework (at least at that time). You could still use the BC4J to
create model part of your application.
You are right BC4J is not really OR mapping tool. Oracle has "its own better
way" of doing things it means that your developers will have to learn this,
and prior experiences with OR tools will not be readily transferable. BC4J
creates a complete OR mapping plus business model as one big structure of
objects called Application Module. In theory the model is quite flexible and
allows you easily add custom business logic.
JServ should not be an issue from development side. You should still be
able to use Oracle JDeveloper remote JSP debugging and run your JSPs on any
container e.g. Tomcat.
Unfortunately I can not tell you anything about deployment - I guess you
just have to try if you can install Struts controller servlet on Oracle AS.
If it does not work you can still deploy Oracle BC4J on any other server by
coping bc4j jar files - you will need BC4J license though. It worked well
for me after I could not get OAS 4 to cooperate.
Let me know if you need more details, also check JDeveloper discussion forum
on technet.oracle.com .
Michael Szlapa
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-----Original Message-----
From: Darcy Schultz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2001 12:59 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Oracle iAS 9i/Struts/BC4J
We are starting to look at the possibility of
combining these technologies and I would like to know
if anyone has done this. It seems most are using
Tomcat and Struts and I'm a little worried about using
Struts with Oracle's Servlets and JSP implementation
(which I believe is based on JServ).
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If someone is currently using BC4J, could you please
let me know if it's a real OO-Relational Mapping tool.
Everything I read, uses a rowset concept instead of
object collections. Is that the way this thing works?
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thanks,
Darcy Schultz.
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