The OP claims his data model is simple enough for Mapper. If he doesn't mind adding the lift-webkit jar to his classpath, I don't see a problem with using Mapper.
--j On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 10:46 AM, Timothy Perrett <timo...@getintheloop.eu>wrote: > > > I didn¹t say that it *wouldn¹t* work, just that its tied to lift-webkit... > Besides, he says that he will be doing a lot of data intensive processing - > seems like JPA would play better there as Mapper is usually has a ceiling > of > functionality and then it becomes necessary to move to JPA anyway. IMHO, > might as well save the recoding time and just work with JPA right away if > he > knows from the start that he will have tricky data ORM tasks. > > Cheers, Tim > > On 23/06/2009 18:28, "Jorge Ortiz" <jorge.or...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I've used Mapper in desktop apps too. It works fine. > > > > --j > > > > On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Naftoli Gugenhem <naftoli...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > >> > >> I used mapper in an offline (demo) app. You have to include the util and > http > >> jars IIRC but it's a desktop app. If you're subcribed to scala-user, I > posted > >> it (I think last week) in the thread about a scala SWT DSL. > >> > >> ------------------------------------- > >> Timothy Perrett<timo...@getintheloop.eu> wrote: > >> > >> > >> Hi Joe, > >> > >> Mapper does not work standalone, its not like ActiveRecord in that > >> sense - its tied to lift-webkit. Your best bet would be to go with > >> JPA; I think that will serve you better anyway. > >> > >> Cheers, Tim > >> > >> On Jun 23, 4:47 pm, Joe Wass <j...@folktunefinder.com> wrote: > >>> Good afternoon (at least in England), > >>> > >>> I'm writing an application which has a significant Lift manifestation, > >>> but also some stand-alone Scala (maybe even Java but I'll exclude this > >>> from the conversation). The stand-alone code is a set of tools that > >>> hang off the database and do some heavy-lifting with the data in the > >>> database, out of sync with the site. Something like periodic data- > >>> crunching from the data on the site. The question comes down to > >>> database mapping. > >>> > >>> I was wondering what people think is a sensible way of doing this. My > >>> data model is simple enough that Mapper could work and I could use the > >>> same classes. I'm aware there are many different ways I could do it, > >>> but it would be nice to do it that way for the sake of simplicity. > >>> > >>> Does this sound a sensible approach? Has anyone else written an app > >>> that's half online, half offline? Are there any obvious pitfalls? > >>> > >>> Cheers > >>> > >>> Joe > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
