If you have no need to load the child objects then don't use a complex result in your resultMap.
Brandon On 5/2/05, Nic Werner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I have several objects in my program which have a bit of a > hierarchy, ie A contains B, B contains C and so on. Each table in the DB > is linked to each other by a foreign key on a unique ID. I have iBATIS > populating each Bean by using a resultMap and calling on the object's > Select statement to populate the encapsulated Bean. Meaning, if I try > and load info for B, it makes a call to the DB for B, and also for C. > > My question is: Is this the best way to go about things? If I am loading > A, it is going to create a call for A,B and C, where normally (w/o > IBATIS) I would just create a statement that contained a join of all > three tables on their unique IDs - and only one DB call. > > Let me know if I need to explain more. > > Thanks, > > - Nic. >
