Hello, I am a student (college university) working on a part of a fictive project management software system.
We received a database dll scheme, so Hibernate was not really an option. It's also a very short project (8 weeks) so iBATIS is definitely a better solution. (shorter learning curve) I've bought iBATIS in action and generated Java Beans and sqlmaps with abator. But now I am stuck. I need some sort of Factory/Facade/Controller for the sqlMaps, but how to code these? It's a desktop app, so isn't the (Spring) DAO overkill??? (I also don't have enough time...) Is it necessary to use a DAO? Is the iBATIS DAO out-of-date because it isn't under development anymore? I don't like the MVC solution we've seen in the Java lessons - manually writing a Connection class, and Mapper classes (Prepared and Callable statements) ...but I also don't really know how to fill in the gap between Swing (view) and the sqlmaps + beans... Any help is greatly appreciated. A desperate ;-) student Greeting, PieterB
