I've been happily using Castor XML for a few years now. Castor JDO has never been considered too much of a choice for large projects, but now as you say that the community is rallying around again, I will take a peek.
-=Ivelin=- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jakob Praher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, February 16, 2003 7:06 AM Subject: Re: extending XMLForms for different kinds of models...opinions? > hi all, > > Am Son, 2003-02-16 um 10.32 schrieb Ugo Cei: > > ivelin wrote: > > > Ugo, can you can share experience with Hibernate vs. Jakarta OJB, Cayenne > > > or another Open Source O/R tool. > > > > > > There is a reasonably objective comparison here > > > http://c2.com/cgi-bin/wiki?ObjectRelationalToolComparison > > > but I would like to hear more from a usability, flexibility and performance > > > perspective. > > > > I am working with Castor/JDO which is insofar good, as it can be easily > integreated with javax.transaction environemnts. > > Querying is done using a subset of ODMG OQL. > I have used it in a number of projects sofar. > I have also done a kind of xpath to oql mapping, for efficient xml > extraction via the cocoon:/ protocol. > > Minor issue is for instance some extra overhead for wrapping the result > in java.util.Collection classes. > > I think the community is reestablishing, since they have done 2 minor > releases already this year - which I think looks promising. > > You can also use the xml package to do marshal the object to xml, but > care must be taken, as it currently uses SAX1 (DocumentHandler), which > must be wrapped with the namespace feature turned on. > > Also check out the xdoclet tags (which I have modified a little bit for > my purpose) for castor, which are handy for mapping generation. > > In my experience, using a simple Bean Object as the form model and then > using this model to fill in a DataObject is the better approach than > direct binding the data object to the form, as you can't always do a 1:1 > mapping between all the fields. > > > just my 2 cents > > -- Jakob > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
