Just a general note here... not every tool is suitable for every project. iBatis solves a very LARGE set of needs, but it might be that it just doesn't solve THIS one (it might, but it's sounding like not...)
Good luck in any case, and I wish I had a nifty solution for you. Out of curiosity, are you using ibatis' daos, or rolling your own? On 11/2/05, Paul Benedict <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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? > > > > > __________________________________ > Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 > http://mail.yahoo.com > -- I tend to view "truly flexible" by another term: "Make everything equally hard". -- DHH
