On 15/09/2007, at 3:09 AM, Kevin Menard wrote:
I'm just getting started on a ROP project using Cayenne 3.0. In my serverclasses, I had a large amount of utility methods attached to my DOs.Clearly, there's a fair amount of overlap between the server classes and theclient classes.
I remember some time ago Andrus saying that he'd like to merge PersistentObject and CayenneDataObject one day. Doing so would certainly help a lot to share code between client and server. For instance in our project we have a lot of duplicate code for entity validation - since we want to run validation on the client without a round trip to the server. But of course we still need to have it on the server.
2) Will packaging either the server or the client classes into distributableJARs gain me anything?
I don't think so. There is just no overlap in the class hierarchy. At the moment in the few places we managed to share some code between client and server we have done it through interfaces.
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