> -----Original Message----- > From: Phase Web and Multimedia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, December 16, 2002 10:16 PM > To: Struts Users Mailing List > Subject: RE: JDBC development > > > If you are just tired of the time it takes to code your DAO > object then > there is an excellent wizard for eclipse called DAO > (http://www.strecl.com). > It has cut my development time in half for standard JDBC development. > > I have used OJB on projects and it is surely a great up and > coming product > which is even now being used in many production environments. > But, I found > that unless you are willing to be "on the edge" the DAO model > is far more > predictable. Heck, by the time I worked through all the > quarks and bugs that > are still being found (and created) in OJB I didn't find my > development time > being shortened at all. Of course, I was only using the PB > API. I never > tried the ODMG,JDO,etc... implementation. But, those are an > abstracted layer > of an abstracted layer. I found that if you have a good > design pattern and > some helpful tools to make it more efficient then you can do > the job good > and efficient without having an abstracted layer. The way I > see it.... I'll > wait for the object databases to grow in maturity and > popularity and I'll > stick to standard JDBC now. > > After all, SQL is relational and JAVA is object oriented. Making the > relational act as object-oriented comes at a price (not neccessarily > negative) and you should "fully" know what those are. There > are trade-offs > both directions. Oh ya, and you still have to close the > connection with OJB > too. So, get used to it. :-D > > Brandon Goodin > Phase Web and Multimedia > P (406) 862-2245 > F (406) 862-0354 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.phase.ws > >
Thanks for the link.. DAO plug-in looks cool! /tb.
