My reasoning for what I've done is: a) it scratches my own itch b) it scratches many other peoples itch
My work did not stop with OJBMessageResources. I have several Database-based Impls of commons-resources sitting on sf.net that are ready for release as soon as common-resources goes 1.0.
When you use a Hibernate backed impl, you get many added benfits (see Hibernate docs for details).
Besides all that.....if this doesn't scratch an itch for you, don't knock it.
-- James Mitchell Software Engineer / Open Source Evangelist EdgeTech, Inc. 678.910.8017 AIM: jmitchtx
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Barrows" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2004 11:15 AM
Subject: RE: message resources in db
-----Original Message----- From: Nathan Coast [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2004 4:17 AM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: message resources in db
Hi,
Has anyone developed message resources that pulls messages from a db? I have followed a few links that discuss this but can't find any code:
http://wiki.apache.org/struts/StrutsMessageResourcesFromDatabase
This notion keeps popping up, and I keep wondering why. On the surface it seems okay, keep everything where it's easy to maintain... but in reality, you really don't buy anything with it.
If you do it so you can dynamically change the values, then you slow down your page throughput quite painfully. So, of course you cache the data... which means it's not dynamic and you either provide a way to flush the cache (which you could do for a flat file as well, as Spring has apparently done).
Then you have the apparent fact that by doing so you are now outside the Java provided i18n stuff, so you might be in a position of trying to maintain this code to keep up with what Java provides for you autmatically.
So, you gain what? it's in a database?
I'm curios as to what you're reasoning is to put these into a database, coz I'm looking for a good excuse to do it myself :)
these docs mention org.apache.struts.util.OJBMessageResourcesFactory but I can't find this class anywhere.
If there is a db implementation for message resources? I guess the natural progression is a web-app gui for managing those resources. Does such a thing exist?
cheers Nathan -- Nathan Coast Managing Director Codeczar Ltd mob : (852) 9049 5581 tel : (852) 2834 8733 fax : (852) 2834 8755 web : http://www.codeczar.com
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