Reuben (I hope that's your first name :-)),
>> Vendor / Branch / Employee / Address
>> When I load a Vendor, I wish (if at all possible)
to load it from the cache, since it contains all sub
objects (Branch, Employee, Address), and is rather
big.
I am in the same situation (see my posts about my
Fruit object). I am curious about how you feel about
needing to list out, if you do, all your columns for
those 4 objects to retrieve a Vendor. This assumes
you're not doing 4 selects, but one select using
joins.
I imagine you have standalone queries like findBranch,
findEmployee, findAddress which lists out their
respective columns, but then you need to list out all
those columns again for findVendor?
I am looking for a good methodology here. I know
Hibernate generates the columns to select
automatically and I like that because I don't like
having to tread through multiple sqlmaps just to
update many select statements when things change.
What is your take on my concern?
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