Yes, I agree with you, that iBatis is already very mature. But on the other hand there is a lot of features mentioned in the iBatis 3 whitepaper, that could increase developer productivity. There is no doubt, that iBatis as it is now, requires a lot of XML, that could be converted to more understable and usable annotations. We have generics for a couple of years and iBatis hasn't had any support yet. I can imagine how big boost to productivity would be to have Interface binding as proposed. These things simply call for new version.
Regards, Jan 2009/2/8 Kai Grabfelder <nos...@kaigrabfelder.de> > This is not really about iBATIS 3 but about the improvements of iBATIS 2. > In my opinion it is perfect just the > way it is currently. So iBATIS 2 is not dead or no longer loved by it's > devs - it's just very very mature. > > Regarding iBATIS 3: I guess Clinton will be able to answer your > questions... > > Regards > > Kai > > --- Original Nachricht --- > Absender: Ing. Jan Novotný > Datum: 08.02.2009 10:11 > > Hello everybody, > > > > I'm going to have a speech at czech university about iBatis and among > > the isssues I want to cover is, how the iBatis is perspective for you as > a > > develeper. Originaly I had there a sentence: iBatis will improve more > > dynamically than widely spread standards can ever do (such as JDBC or > JPA). > > This sentence was written 2 years ago, but I am not so sure now. > > When I look into > > > http://opensource.atlassian.com/confluence/oss/display/IBATIS/iBATIS+3.0+Whiteboard > , > > it has been long since it was seriously touched and I haven't found any > > other clue when or whether there is going to be iBatis 3. There is very > > small activity for 3.x version in Jira, thouhg there are some commits > into > > iBatis 3 core (http://www.mail-archive.com/comm...@ibatis.apache.org/). > So > > can anyone give me any answer about iBatis 3, that I can spread further? > > > > Cheers, > > Jan > > > > -- -------------------------------------------------------------- Ing. Jan Novotný @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ http://blog.novoj.net Myšlenky dne otce Fura --------------------------------------------------------------
