Hi Mike, here's my personal take on these questions. I am sure others here are going to have different opinions .. ;-)
Werner Mike Wannamaker wrote: > We are having some talks here at work about which is better. Castor or > Hibernate? > > Here is one persons findings: > 1) Hibernate if more mature If mature menas 'more tested', I'd probably agree. If it means more feature-complete, yes, too. Castor - for some reasons I don't feel like discusing here - was available way earlier that Hibernate, but due to an extended period of inactivity fell behind it (and other o/r mappers such as JDO, iBatis, etc.,). > 2) Hibernate has better documentation Yes, my feeling as well. Though we are working on this as we speak. > 3) Hibernate supports inheritance And so does Castor JDO as of release 0.9.9 > 4) Hibernate supports disconnected Operations. And so does Castor JDO through long transactions. Unless we happen to be talking different terms here .... > 5) JBOSS hired the Hibernate team and that team is part of the EJB 3.0 > specification group so they believe that a lot of Hibernate will make it > into EJB3.0 spec. This might be the case, this might not be the case .. ;-). Who knows what the final votes are going to be. Please bear in mind that most of the actions taken by the Hibernate team are considered to be (well) controversial (at least) by the community. > > I was just wondering if the Castor folks had any comments and/or could point > me to any other reviews of castor vs hibernate? No, not really (easily), though I have got some additional points to consider for you. a) Easy and proven integration with Castor XML. b) Licensing (afair, the Apache Software Foundation is discussing issues around LGPL et alias). c) Hibernate is not JDO compliant (either). Now, some folks (incl. us) regard this as an advantage, but compliance within many corporations is mandatory. > > Thanks > --ekiM > Only once you realize that you do not understand, can you open up your mind > to learn. > > > ------------------------------------------------- > If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, please > send an empty message to the following address: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ------------------------------------------------- > > ------------------------------------------------- If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, please send an empty message to the following address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------------------------------
