On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 09:01:57PM -0600, Antonio Gallardo wrote:
> I really no wonder why peope still think XSP is the great Gig in the
> Cocoon town, because if you google around you will feel this is the way
> Cocoon goes. To be honest I don't google about this for a long time but
> still early this year this was the tendency.
xsp is very powerful if you use it with esql.
- very fast custom database action creation (xsp actions)
- nice syntax, no need for enormous amount of JDBC code needed, no need to
handle exceptions
- esql is customized transparently for several databases ( i.e. max-rows,
skip-rows) - very useful for me because I connect cocoon to existing
database installations so I do not have the comfort to choose one that fits
the best.
while the flow:
- has some database support but is really poor
- you have to catch exceptions yourself
- no database customizations
- O/R support is still pre-alpha and even if it was already mature
- the overhead is much too big comparing to pure JDBC for projects
not-enterprise size
- you cannot use it for web applications that use already ready database
schema - try to add some functionality to big accounting system - you
would have to map almost whole existing db even if you need access to 3-4
tables
- sometimes the db schema makes it impossible to use O/R tools
- in 2 years I haven't found a single project that does not fall under one
of above conditions
I would really like to contribute to some flow-db block that does not involve
O/R mapping but do not know where to start from.
Jakarta commons has something called DBUtils
(http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/dbutils/index.html) - I do not know the
functionality but I suppose if this was wrapped with Scriptable I think it
would be very useful.
ouzo
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