>> We need to make this VERY clear somewhere. I'll work up a statement for the website.
Sounds good. I have some ideas on this too. In addition to a statement, I think some new organization for the site is in order as well. Plus, I need to get some Ruby content up there. Hopefully it will help with finding documentation etc. as well.
Cheers,
Clinton
On 7/17/06, Jeff Butler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
If you have an existing domain model and a lot of stored procedures, then Abator is probably not going to help you.However, iBATIS will still be a tremendous help to your project. iBATIS can execute the stored procedures and map the results to your domain objects automatically (and do automatic type handling too) - this is the real strong suit of iBATIS. iBATIS also reduces the amount of boilerplate JDBC code you will have to write to zero. No more annoying try/catch/finally/try/catch constructs! The "POJOs in Action" guys did not write about Abator, they show how to use iBATIS in the more normal case - where you code the SQL/XML by hand.Abator is just a simple table-based code generator. Use it if it helps, otherwise don't. In your case, it sounds like it won't help you very much. Abator is NOT required for iBATIS, and your decision whether to use iBATIS should NOT be based on Abator.Clinton: you were right :) We need to make this VERY clear somewhere. I'll work up a statement for the website.Jeff Butler
On 7/17/06, hicham abassi < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Thanks Jeff,
In fact, we have an existing VB/PlSQL/Oracle application. We must
write a new webapp with existing business model.
We have a lot of sql query with stored procedure into the select
clause and where clause.
I better discovered the adv of Ibatis by reading the excellent book
"POJOS in action".
Hibernate even it provides some quality features doesn't well target our needs.
I continue my evaluation of Ibatis to try to integrate ibatis into our project.
As you said, if we must think for resultset , what's the adv of ibatis
on classical rowset implementation ? ;)
On 7/17/06, Jeff Butler < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Abator is completely table based. This may, or may not, be a good fit for
> your particular application. We usually say that iBATIS maps result sets to
> objects, NOT tables to objects. But code generators are pretty limited in
> what they can figure out on their own - so Abator generates objects to match
> each table because it is the easist thing to do. You have to decide for
> yourself whether this provides any value in your situation.
>
> If you have a rich domain model that does not map easily to tables, then it
> is probably worth your while to write the iBATIS configuration items
> yourself - you might end up ignoring most of the Abator generated code in
> that case.
>
> I think there are some cases where there can be value in the Abator objects
> if your domain model does not match your database - but there is some debate
> about that and you'll have to decide for yourself. In these cases, the
> inserts, updates, and deletes may be useful. Probably not the selects.
>
> If your domain model is a relatively close match to your DB, then the Abator
> objects will likely provide quite a lot of value out of the box.
>
> If your schema changes, then you can regenerate the Abator objects. Abator
> in the Eclipse environment will merge the old and new together to reflect
> the schema changes.
>
>
> Jeff Butler
>
>
>
>
> On 7/17/06, hicham abassi < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I just installed Abator plugin.
> > I filled the abator config file with jdbc infos, generator infos.
> > Abator's generated the sqlmap config files and java classes correctly.
> > Abator use the classic way to select rows from database and also
> > queries by example.
> > I just want to know more infos about feedbacks on this plugin.
> > Have you just got the generated resultmap and wrote after your custom
> > select statement ?
> > How abator manage database schema changes with a previous code generation
> ?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > On 7/17/06, Graeme J Sweeney < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
> > > On Mon, 17 Jul 2006, hicham abassi wrote:
> > >
> > > > What's the actually best ibatis plugin ? Abator, .... ?
> > >
> > > Plugin for what?
> > >
> > > --
> > > Graeme -
> > >
> >
>
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