iBATIS is 100% thread-safe. Larry
PS: can you point me to a good example of a Spring-based DAO implementation? On 9/1/05, Christian Bollmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > my suggestion would be to have a closer look at the > Spring framework. IoC / dependency injection is > really cool once you get a grasp of it. Instead of > having the service look up a DAO instance, you > simply inject the fitting implementation class into > the service via Spring. The service itself only knows > the DAO interface and has a setter property for it. > Note that this way you also have to deal with > shared instances (like with iBATIS DAO) and > therefore have to keep heed of thread issues, but > luckily Spring also provides template implementations > for most common database access solutions (JDBC, > iBATIS, Hibernate, JDO, Toplink (by Oracle) which > are said (I still have to check that out) to be > inherently thread-safe. Btw. can anybody here > confirm this? Currently, we are probably too > cautious in this direction (using iBATIS). > > -- Chris. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Paul Benedict" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <user@struts.apache.org> > Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2005 6:19 AM > Subject: DAOs in service methods > > > > Hey guys. > > > > I have alot of service objects called from Struts, and > > each have a good deal of service methods. Service > > methods mainly do business logic and talk to DAO > > objects. > > > > Question: > > I've taken the approach of service methods having the > > responsibility of instantiating DAO objects locally > > and using them. Is this correct? Or should I > > instantiate all the DAO objects that could ever be > > needed in my service constructor, and use them as > > instance variables? > > > > Or is there a better design? > > > > Thanks! > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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]