There isn't much to say. $blah$ is a literal whereas #blah# will convert to a ? for the prepared statement.
say you have a property of id on Person and set its value to 1 public class Person { private Integer id; //getter/setter } If you use the following syntax in your mapped statement: select name from person where id = #id# ibatis will convert the #id# to a ? for use in the prepared statement: select name from person where id = ? if on the other hand you used the $id$ ibatis would pass the following to the prepared statement select name from person where id = 1 The obvious caution here is that the $literal$ syntax should never be utilized in a place that the public can alter it. You open yourself to SQL injection risks. In other words don't take a value that is passed in from a web page and assign it in your SQL as s literal. Brandon On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Alin Popa <alin.p...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > There is a place where I can find some documentation/examples/links > related to string substitution in ibatis ? ($substitution$ thingy > ....) > In the official pdf documentation I didn't find anything about it; > also google didn't helped much. > > Thanks, > Alin >