Its Chunk, not Chuck now.  Please start signing appropriately.

Karl

On 2012-07-12, at 9:28 PM, Chuck Hill <ch...@global-village.net> wrote:

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> On 2012-07-12, at 4:01 AM, Hugi Thordarson wrote:
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>>>> I think Hugi also use it.
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>>> Is that a point for or against it?  :-P
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> Ah ha!  So you ARE still reading the list!  :-)  Good to see you around!
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>> But yes, I've used Cayenne on a couple of projects. As you know it feels a 
>> *lot* like EOF and was by far the nicest ORM I could legally use at my 
>> previous pure java workplace. (protip: never go anywhere near JPA, it *will* 
>> rape your dog and kill your grandmother.) 
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> LOL
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>> Apart from the technical similarities, Cayenne also has another important 
>> thing in common with WO: A good community and an active mailing list full of 
>> nice and helpful people, so you never get stuck along the way.
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> That is good to hear and not surprising considering that some of them are 
> ex-WO people.
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>> Cayenne is still missing a lot of functionality when compared to EOF/Wonder 
>> and generally feels less mature (understandably, since EOF is ancient). This 
>> is perhaps not such a huge problem, since functionality can always be 
>> added—but there is indeed a *lot* of work to be done to reach feature parity 
>> with EOF.
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>> It's clear that at some point most of us will have to stop using EOF in it's 
>> current form. In a perfect world (that's the world where I have endless time 
>> and money) I'd do a clean room implementation of EOF and live happily ever 
>> after. But this is indeed not a perfect world, so helping making Cayenne 
>> better and more integrated with WO seems like a more realistic goal 
>> (besides, it allows more resources to be spent on a re-implementation of WO; 
>> something I'd love to participate in).
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> Chuck
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