Hello again, I remembered two minor things I could have used in Abator:
- A 1.5/generics flag to make all the collections use generics. - A bulk insert method in each DAO that can take a collection of the given model and save it in a transaction and batch. Cheers, Chris On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 09:39 -0600, Christopher Lamey wrote: > On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 12:17 +0200, Davide Rogora wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm new to iBATIS and I'm going to start a new application for my > > company using it. > > > > One of my last doubt is: "Should I use Abator to generate sqlmap files > > and classes?" > > I have this doubt because I saw that JPetStore application has been > > developed without using Abator. > > > > Do you have any experience with Abator or could you tell me advantages > > and disadvantages of it? > > Hello, > > I'm also new to iBATIS but am a little further along in the process. > When I started the project...er, that is, when I dumped Hibernate, I > used Abator to generate generic CI DAOs, models, and sqlmap files. The > DAOs are Spring-wired, but I don't like Spring's SqlMapClient wrapper. > At first I wanted to structure things in a way so that I could recreate > the Abator files at will and not have to merge with any custom code. > But I didn't want to have to surface all the iBATIS CRUD functionality > in a custom API or deal with an overly complicated object model, so I > decided to use the Abator classes as more of a starting point. > > Since I started coding, I've been adding wacky SQL to the maps and > exposing it through the Abator generated DAOs/models. I do have some > DDL changes that I'll use Abator to generate some more code/config, but > I'll merge the differences in manually. > > The nice part about using the Abator generated code is that the CRUD > busy work was done in an instant. I do wish there was a way to turn off > the comments Abator puts in all the code, but that's a small thing. I > didn't use any customization in Abator, but I haven't found much that > I'd want to customize. So the Abator generated code has been working > great for me so far, no complaints and many thanks to the team. > > BTW, I can't believe how much more productive I am using iBATIS than > Hibernate. With Hibernate I was spending all my time trying reverse > engineer what it was doing and figuring out how to either write code > around it or tweak the config. iBATIS is great because I have complete > control over what SQL gets run when...which I suppose if you don't know > SQL all that well, would be a problem. > > Cheers, > Chris >
