--- Joe Schell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dimitar Stavrakov wrote: > > > > > > The functionality provided to you by the EJB > container is time that you > > cannot make up by a generator. Just think about > connection pooling, > > This can be done without a EJB container. There are > a number of free > and commercial implementations that do it.
The free and commercial implementations are all very nice, but do search on the web for someone who knows "Ernest Does Database Persistence 2.0 (EDDP2)" and then compare that to the same for EJB. (Adjust for people who actually really know what they say they know.) > > > transaction management, etc. > > You have to be more specific. JDBC does > transactions. > yes, but it does not do transaction management. > > When you're using EJBs all these are ready for > > you to use, without having to write a single line > of code. You can't beat > > that with straight JDBC coding. > > Using all of that functionality, especially the > first time for each > different container, takes a non-trivial amount of > time to configure and > tune. There is probably an EJB container that > provides easy and clear > documentation that makes such chores a breeze. > However I haven't seen > it nor heard of it. (I spent a week one time trying > to get a container > set up to do connection pooling with a particular > database and driver > and I finally had to give up.) That time also > counts against the total > time for coding any new implementations. > > Ok, so instead of spending a non-trivial time configuring a server that at least adheres to some or all of a fairly straight forward spec, we will all invest time learning some third party, non-standard, BETTER DOCUMENTED java database framework ? I hear you that some of these products are hard to use, but that is because they are addressing a hard problem and/or they just suck. As always, please share any alternatives with this list ! //Nicholas =========================================================================== > To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > and include in the body > of the message "signoff EJB-INTEREST". For general > help, send email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the > message "help". > ===== Nicholas Whitehead Home: (973) 377 9335 Cell: (201) 615 2716 Work: (212) 622 5639 [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos & More http://faith.yahoo.com =========================================================================== To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff EJB-INTEREST". For general help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help".
