Re: Multiple Statements in one transaction/command

[Ben Munat]

Clinton Begin wrote:

No, I would avoid that.  I'm not sure what the appeal is of doing 
something like this.  More XML and less Java?  I'm finding the opposite 
opinion is more common these days....less XML and more Java.  In fact, 
one of the highest priority features of iBATIS 3.0 is XML-less iBATIS.  ;-)

Please don't fall for the anti-XML hype! I cannot fathom this whole "xml is too verbose" 
crap. Yes, it is possible to push too much responsibility into the XML (and yes, alarm 
bells should be going off when you're talking about putting a logic notion like "foreach" 
in XML), but that does not mean we should abandon XML... and for what? Yet another markup 
language (Ruby-bash fully intended) but without the "scary" pointy brackets? Hardcoding 
our configuration in the code?

In any case, from one (mostly) satisfied iBatis user, your use of XML is *just fine*! 
Don't fix what ain't broke!

b