-----Original Message-----
From: Gilles Bayon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, 12 October 2006 5:19 AM
To: [email protected]; [email protected]
Subject: iBATIS.NET Survey
Hello,
The iBATIS team wants to know your opinion / suggestion about
iBATIS.NET.
This will help us to see what is important for you and which
improvements can be made in future version.
Thanks for participation.
* What operating system and .NET version are you using?
Windows Xp/Windows 2003 .NET 2.0
* In what contexts are you currently using iBATIS.NET?
ASP.NET Web application, soon to investigate use with web services to
service front end Forms apps.
* What is your use?
In production.
* What do you think of the quality of these libraries?
Excellent, I use iBatis and Nhibernate depending on certain factors such
as database backend format.
* Why have you selected iBATIS.NET?
Reasonably easy to get started. Good start on documentation, good user
forum.
Works well where Nhibernate doesn't seem to fit (Reporting for example,
and stored proc usage)
* What's your overall opinion of iBATIS?
It's a easy product to integrate into our applications.
I have tried various systems, datasets, MS Data Access Block,
Nhibernate, iBatis. I'm definitely impressed with both Nhibernate and
iBatis over the Microsoft solutions. I am keeping one eye open on ADO
vNext though, as it appears to be attempting to do certain things that
iBatis and nHibernate are doing. Although in common MS fashion, they'll
probably fart it up.
- What could be improved?
Be nice if there were more bloggers giving out more articles of
patterns, tutorials, sample code.
- What problems do you encounter?
None sofar.
- What features are you most interested in?
The current feature set seems adequate for my needs.
* About the documentation? (A book is on the rail :-)...)
Go the book! I'll buy a copy.
- Is it clear?
I was first put off with the approach the documentation took on
test-first design. I am not a test-first developer
But do try to be agile with my approach. I just found it strange (from
the norm) of presenting a tutorial this way.
It may be off-putting to a certain group of people who have never been
exposed to writing tests first.
Some people just like a more common explanation or build up style
example.
- Which improvements do you want?
- More samples? Demo applications?
Always love more samples, & more demos. I'd love something which I
found very useful with Nhibernate, a best practices style article.
Eg
http://www.codeproject.com/aspnet/NHibernateBestPractices.asp?df=100&for
umid=278860&mpp=50&fr=51
This article from Billy McCafferty was a real good heads up, something
similar to iBatis would be immensely useful. Sort of a patterns and
practise for the product.
Thanks for such a great product!. And I must get my act together and
paypal or get something off your Amazon list.
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