You can (and should) use the DAO pattern with Hibernate, too. The iBATIS DAO even has built-in support for hibernate (of course, it has support for sql maps, too).
Larry On 8/23/05, Paul Benedict <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Erik, > > Oh, I have worked on a project where that was the > pattern I designed for myself!! One accepted a > connection for transactions, the other for > self-contained singleton executions. Yup, it's a great > pattern. > > You raise an interesting point. I never thought about > using a middle-man between my business tier and DAO. > I'll have to think about that. > > And yes, I do use connection pooling -- good point! I > guess there is not a performance gain in keeping the > connection around at the instance level. Perhaps I am > being scrupulous and trying to save time with the pool > code, but that's ridiculous. It's better to put it > back in the pool because at the millisecond level, > many more threads could be using it in between my > thread. > > And, I like the IBATIS idea described by Larry... but > sorry, I love Hibernate :-) I don't use it yet, but I > am on board whenever I get to use it. > > Thanks! > Paul > > > > ____________________________________________________ > Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page > http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
