Re: Commons Mapper: scope/roadmap?

2004-12-18 Thread David Graham
--- Max Rudman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Dec 17, 2004, at 8:52 PM, David Graham wrote: > > > There aren't any reusable implementations that I can think of. What > do > > you picture the Hibernate mapper implementation looking like? > Well, I am not too familiar with other O/R implement

Re: Commons Mapper: scope/roadmap?

2004-12-18 Thread Matt Sgarlata
Max Rudman wrote: Specifically, I'm not exactly planning on a Query-by-Example API, but rather a dynamic SQL statement builder API (also insert, update, delete, etc.). I run into this problem all the time where the user is specifying what they'd like to search for, and so you need to build a

Re: Commons Mapper: scope/roadmap?

2004-12-17 Thread Max Rudman
On Dec 17, 2004, at 8:52 PM, David Graham wrote: There aren't any reusable implementations that I can think of. What do you picture the Hibernate mapper implementation looking like? Well, I am not too familiar with other O/R implementations but at least in Hibernate you don't need a separate Data

Re: Commons Mapper: scope/roadmap?

2004-12-17 Thread Max Rudman
Specifically, I'm not exactly planning on a Query-by-Example API, but rather a dynamic SQL statement builder API (also insert, update, delete, etc.). I run into this problem all the time where the user is specifying what they'd like to search for, and so you need to build a SQL statement on-t

Re: Commons Mapper: scope/roadmap?

2004-12-17 Thread David Graham
There aren't any reusable implementations that I can think of. What do you picture the Hibernate mapper implementation looking like? The idea is that your app talks to the Mapper API which is implemented as sql, hibernate, etc. However, each implementation will be very specific to your app. For

Re: Commons Mapper: scope/roadmap?

2004-12-17 Thread Matt Sgarlata
I never noticed Mapper before... interesting. Actually I will be tackling some of the same problems once I get Morph out the door (morph.sourceforge.net). It will be a separate project focused on DB interaction but I haven't thought of a name yet (I'm calling it "Persistence" for now, but tha

Commons Mapper: scope/roadmap?

2004-12-17 Thread Max Rudman
I've just discovered Commons Mapper project and would like to contribute. I built my own abstraction layer for Hibernate but would love to move to Mapper instead. I looked through current documentation and have a couple of questions. 1) Are specific implementations within the scope of this proj