I can't make any guarantees, but this is something we're trying to address with the upcoming Record framework. The other thing is that you can mix the two if there are certain things you like about Mapper (say, MegaProtoUser).
Derek On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 2:18 AM, Alex <a...@liivid.com> wrote: > > I decided against JPA because you lose a lot of framework > functionality which it seems is unfortunately tied to the Mapper > classes. > > > On Mar 23, 12:15 pm, saem <saemgh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I suggest checking outhttp://www.liquibase.org/ > > > > It's the best open source database change management tool I've come > > across to date. > > > > On Mar 20, 11:18 pm, Derek Chen-Becker <dchenbec...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Well. I think it depends. I know that if you use the hibernate provider > that > > > you can set a property to automatically create/update the schema when > it > > > runs. You can look at the JPA Demo site in the Lift repo: > > > > >http://github.com/dpp/liftweb/blob/794cac5abf6b1ae5502f6321847f6186fc. > .. > > > > > The relevant property is "hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto" > > > > > I haven't used TopLink but it appears to have a subset of this > > > functionality: > > > > >http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/ias/toplink/JPA/essentials/. > .. > > > > > The caveat is that with Hibernate it can alter existing tables to match > > > changes in your entities, but toplink appears to do a drop-then-add, > which > > > kind of sucks. I haven't looked at JPOX or any other JPA impls. > > > > > Derek > > > > > On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 7:13 PM, Alex <a...@liivid.com> wrote: > > > > > > I'm going through the recently announced book and JPA looks pretty > > > > attractive. There is no mention of schema management - e.g. creating > > > > and modifying tables. Is there any or is that all done manually? > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lift" group. To post to this group, send email to liftweb@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to liftweb+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
