Nick, wg> -----Urspr�ngliche Nachricht----- wg> Von: Nick Stuart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wg> Gesendet: Dienstag, 26. April 2005 16:57 wg> An: [email protected] wg> Betreff: Re: [castor-user] CAstor /Spring wg> Wichtigkeit: Niedrig wg> wg> wg> A few general questions about the whole 'integration' wg> thing. I haven't used Spring (I know, shame on me), but have used HiveMind so I at wg> least understand the general type of functionality behind spring. Great. So at least we share a common language ....
wg> By doing this, what would spring integration make easier wg> for the life of Castor end-user developer? Well, for starters, if we integrated Castor with Spring at e.g. the same level as Hibernate, iBatik and/or OJB, you could add a JDO/JDOManager instance and its configuration to Spring's main configuration file and obtain a JDOManager instance through a simple lookup. In addition, there's integration to be achieved with how transaction demarcation is handled in Spring, hence making Spring's configuration file the one and only place where transaction semantics are declared. Next, (sophisticated) support for building DAOs using Castor as the underlying persistence mechanism. Integrate this with the above items, and it implies that the number of lines of code that you have to write greatly is reduced. And there's more ... wg> wg> What problems would this get rid of, or at least aid in solving? As mentioned above, having to code everything. And suffering from having to integrate various frameworks manually. wg> Will doing this mean the end users would need to wg> "configure" yet more wg> xml files, or would that be done by the integration wg> developers and the wg> end users get 'plug and play' type setup? wg> wg> With containers in general, what would castor have to gain by being wg> integrated? Be it HiveMind, Pico, Spring, etc. wg> wg> Again, lack of in-depth Spring knowledge here, but when I wg> last looked wg> at it, for ME it looked like a lot more work then gain. But wg> thats me, wg> and I know for sure that it has its uses, not doubting that. wg> wg> Guess that's just my general thoughts/questions. Feel free wg> to yell and wg> flail wildly if need be. :) wg> wg> -Nick wg> wg> p.s. Would join you fine folks on IRC, but I'm at work at wg> the moment, wg> and really dont need another reason not to be productive. wg>
