On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 10:02 PM, nitish pandey <[email protected]> wrote: > Understood most of it's hints. But surely we must have come a long way since > 2006.
Well, since then we've seen the long overdue rise of functional programming languages as an alternative to object-oriented programming :) > Else the gods of platform development should have given up on ORM. There's a lot invested in OO which pretty much requires that ORM exists... > It just might be most convincing to hear about a recent headache on a major > project that uses a major ORM tool. Oh there are plenty of ORM horror stories out there (which is true of nearly every complex tool). > We develop in jee + spring and ORM is part of the process. Are you telling > me that in couple of years we will see pain larger than the ensuing benefits > of automatic schema & data access code management? You may, you may not. Oracle are working hard to ensure the success of JEE projects - JEE 7 and JEE 8 are both focused on simplification, streamlining and convention-over-configuration. At least that's what they said at JAXconf and I expect that's what the keynotes at this week's JavaOne will say as well. At JAXconf, in the Oracle keynote, they advised Java developers to get used to the idea of learning new languages :) I think it will be interesting to see how the JEE world deals with the rise of noSQL datastores... -- Sean A Corfield -- (904) 302-SEAN An Architect's View -- http://corfield.org/ World Singles, LLC. -- http://worldsingles.com/ Railo Technologies, Inc. -- http://www.getrailo.com/ "Perfection is the enemy of the good." -- Gustave Flaubert, French realist novelist (1821-1880) -- official tag/function reference: http://openbd.org/manual/ mailing list - http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en
