Why not just help out with Torque instead of building such a similar project? Don't we have enough Object/Relational mapping layers already?
-Kurt On Mon, 3 Mar 2003, Dwayne Schultz wrote: > The Colle team is proud to announce the release of Colle v0.1.1 > including Colle-SQL. > > http://colle.sourceforge.net/ > > Torque users and developers may find Colle-SQL of interest because of > it's similarity to Torque. In fact, when we learned of Torque several > months ago the similarity took us by surprise. > > Colle-SQL is smaller than Torque and supports far fewer database > systems (only MySQL and Oracle currently) but accomplishes many of the > same tasks. > > The pattern applied in Colle-SQL is very similar to the pattern used in > Torque -- define a problem set in XML, validate the XML and generate > lots of common code. This pushes Java's strong type checking out to > the database and back, thereby catching many bugs at compile time. > > Some of the differences between Colle-SQL and Torque are Colle uses one > file per table or view and a database schema is a collection of tables > and views in one folder. Torque criteria are replaced by lookup and > delete methods defined in the table or view. Lookup and delete methods > contain simple WHERE clauses so there will be some trade offs in > portability. But there are no bizarre side effects as is mentioned in > "The Gory Details" of the Torque Tutorial. Joins are implemented in > views which further simplifies the Torque criteria issue. > > I am announcing Colle on this mailing list because I feel this release > will be of interest to Torque users *and* developers. My hope is that > both projects can grow from each other. > > More information about Colle-SQL can be found here: > > http://colle.sourceforge.net/about/sql.shtml > > Colle started as a closed-source ASP project. Certain reusable > portions of the project are now being released under an OSI approved > BSD license. Future releases will focus on applying the same > XML/validation/code pattern to web forms, web presentation and > middleware protocols. > > Let us know what you think. Feedback can be sent to me at > [EMAIL PROTECTED] or to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Dwayne Schultz > Architect > > ================================ > Use the right kind of glue > http://colle.sf.net > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
