What's the difference between DAO frameworks and Object Relational frameworks?
Here's a list of things I was calling Object Relational Mapping Tools. Are these the same things as DAO tools? If not, what are the distinct parts of this business-to-db middle layer, and what are the distinctions? *Apache:Betwixt *Apache:ObjectRelationalBridge *Apache:Peers *Apache:Torque *ChiMu:FreeForm *JCorporate:Expresso *Persistence Layer *SourceForge:DataBind *SourceForge:jRelationalFramework *SourceForge:MiddleGen *sql2java *Sun:Entity Enterprise JavaBeans *Sun:DAO *Sun:JDO *Sun:JMX ChiMu:Form eQ! exolab.org:Castor Microsoft:ADO Objectwave:Jgrinder Thought Inc:CoCoBase Village Webgain:Toplink Thanks, Dan > -----Original Message----- > From: Craig R. McClanahan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 2:53 PM > To: Struts Users Mailing List > Subject: Re: DAO Addition to struts > > > > > On Mon, 29 Jul 2002, Craig R. McClanahan wrote: > > > > > There are DAO-like design patterns in some of the > applications in the > > "contrib" directory of the CVS repository, and in many of the apps > > referenced on the resources page. And, of course, the DAO > descriptions > > from any competent patterns book should work just fine with > Struts -- many > > of them come with example code that can give you a starting point. > > > > I should also point out that there are also tools in the > world that start > from a description of your data (or introspect the metadata of your > database) and generate DAO classes for you. Two open source ones to > check out (off the top of my head) are Torque and Castor, but > there are > many alternatives. > > Craig > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
