Hi I have been working a bit with Hibernate and want to get a look at iBatis. I have read the first 80-90 pages of the "iBatis in action" book and I am a bit confused.
JavaBeans?! Isn't that that horribly bloaty standard that everyone tells me to avoid? What's it doing in what I thought was a lightweight and easy framework? I read that iBatis doesn't make any demands on the domain model. Then the book says that I should use JavaBeans and mumbles something about a 114 pages specification and starts to tell me about the most basic stuffs about JavaBeans and more or less hints that this will not be enough. I feel somewhat confused now. Isn't this a demand on the domain model? Please explain this because it just doesn't make sence to me... -- // Jonathan
