I don't understand - why would that be a problem? (That you have
explictly open and close your database connection).

On Feb 22, 7:09 pm, Robert Fischer <robert.fisc...@smokejumperit.com>
wrote:
> +1 for Spring JDBC: it manages all that openConnection/closeConnection noise 
> for you, which means
> that your JDBC code can *also* start to be expressive.
>
> ~~ Robert.
>
>
>
> Rakesh wrote:
> > have you looked at Spring JDBC? It has a similar interface and manages
> > the connections for you.
>
> > I think if you go down a non-orm route and want to have lots of sql,
> > Ibatis is quite common - not used it so can't say for sure.
>
> > Spring JDBC though is very nice and have used it extensively.
>
> > Rakesh
>
> > On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Christian Hvid
> > <christian.h...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Hi Java people.
>
> >> I have been toying with simplier ways of doing embedded SQL in Java.
>
> >> And would like your comments on this one?
>
> >>http://code.google.com/p/chalkmine/
>
> >> It allows you to write code like this:
>
> >> openConnection();
> >> try {
> >>    int count = queryScalar(Integer.class, "select count(*) from
> >> people");
> >>    System.out.println("There are "+count+" people in the bin.");
> >> } finally {
> >>    closeConnection();
> >> }
>
> >> or
>
> >> openConnection();
> >> try {
> >>    List<Person> people = queryList(Person.class, "select name,
> >> time_in_the_bin from people");
> >>    for (Person p : people)
> >>        System.out.println(p.getName()+" has been "+p.getTimeInTheBin()
> >> +" hours in the bin.");
> >> } finally {
> >>    closeConnection();
> >> }
>
> >> (Provided that Person has a constructor matching the types of name,
> >> time_in_the_bin. Probably Person(String, int).)
>
> >> Where the methods openConnection, queryScalar, queryList,
> >> closeConnection are statically imported.
>
> >> openConnection() figures out the name of the calling class, looks up a
> >> configuration, opens a connection and puts in a ThreadLocal container.
>
> >> queryScalar(Class, String, ...) performs a query with a single row
> >> result that is "cast" to the given class.
>
> >> queryList(Class, String, ...) performs a query and returns the result
> >> as a list of the given class.
>
> >> I would like to turn it into a full-fledged open source project.
>
> >> But since it is incredibly hard for a new open source project to gain
> >> traction I would like to figure out whether it is interesting enough
> >> first.
>
> >> -- Christian
>
> --
> ~~ Robert Fischer.
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