Greg Monroe wrote: > That said, my personal elevator speech for Torque is: > > Torque is designed to simplify using SQL data in Java applications across > all the common SQL > database servers. It allows for rapid development, while supporting the > full application life > cycle. > > Torque is based on modeling your data schema in XML. Torque uses this > XML to generate > the Java objects needed to access your data via it's runtime component. > In addition, > Torque can generate the SQL needed to create the underlying DB and > supports setting up > the initial data your applications might need. > > This means development is faster because you concentrate on defining the > underlying > data, then quickly start using the Torque generated objects to work on the > business > logic. > > It assists in the application deployment phase with its generated SQL > scripts and initial > data setup capabilities. > > Finally, it helps in the maintenance phase in several ways. For example, > the XML schemas > make it easy to identify changes between versions. Torque's method of > defining SQL in > the code helps identify problems with tables or columns that have been > dropped or > renamed.
I guess the term "object-relational mapper" should be in it. Bye, Thomas. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
