Hello,
I am using Hibernate in the work, and I worked long time with EOF and some
time with Cayenne.
You are right, Cayenne or EOF have the GUI Tool which helps much. On the
other hand, There is for example an Eclipse plugin which creates the mapping
files for Hibernate.
However, I think this is not the problem. I saw this problem also when i
started working with hibernate. I was wondering and searching for the GUI
appliction to build the mappinf files for Hibernate.
In the real life this is a minor Problem.
Check which tool is the best for your application and which features you
need. Of course you cant forget also the advantage of using Cayenne, that it
is very very simialr to EOF. And if you know EOF, you need couple of days to
use it. With Hibernate you will need more than couple of weeks to understand
what the hill this tool does :) (In good way of course)
Hope this helps you.
John.
New Document
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dov Rosenberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2007 4:53 PM
Subject: Re: Cayenne vs JPA tools
I have taken a look at Hibernate a bit this weekend which claims to be JPA
compliant. I haven't looked at the JPA APIs in much detail yet, but what
is
your gut feeling on the migration path between Cayenne 2.x and Cayenne
JPA?
We are already going thru a lot of changes to migrate from EOF to
Cayenne -
I really don't want to have to radically rebuild our app again when
Cayenne
JPA rolls around.
BTW - I don't really care for the manual building of Hibernate mapping
files. It seems like a step backward from Cayenne.
I haven't gone into depth yet on Hibernate - it seems capable but I think
people who have never used tools like EOF or Cayenne really don't
appreciate
their sophistication and design.
Are there any comparisons between current versions of Hibernate and
Cayenne?
Thanks in advance
Dov Rosenberg
On 2/25/07 9:49 AM, "Andrus Adamchik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Yep - JPA work progressed greatly. Cayenne 3.0 version can be viewed
as "Cayenne Classic" and "Cayenne JPA" working in the same runtime.
My opinion is that standard JPA API hides too much stuff under the
hood, so a real application will end up using provider specific
features in some form anyways. In any event, in Cayenne we will
support both with some migration capability.
Andrus
On Feb 23, 2007, at 10:45 PM, Michael Gentry wrote:
Well, Andrus is hard at work on making Cayenne 3.0 JPA-compliant, so
perhaps you'd still be happy staying with Cayenne?
/dev/mrg
On 2/23/07, Dov Rosenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
We are in the process of considering a migration away from our
current EOF
based application. We have used Cayenne and found it to be pretty
nice. Now
that JPA is starting to gain some traction should we reconsider
our decision
for Cayenne and aim instead of a JPA compatible framework?
Thanks in advance for any feedback you can provide
--
Dov Rosenberg
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