Re: GWT + mysql (noob questions)

2009-09-23 Thread PJ Gray
Cool thanks for all the feedback. I think for now I'll just dig into the lower level stuff myself. I'm just going to use the java.sql classes, and handle things that way. I really don't have much data to store in the database at this point anyway. Already since I am using the command pattern

Re: GWT + mysql (noob questions)

2009-09-23 Thread Trevis
>It sounds like hibernate, when integrated into my app, allows me to avoid >having to worry about the lower level SELECTs & parsing results etcetc? That is true for the most part but as Charlie said it's not a pure win because getting it to do what you want, how you want it to do it can be very

Re: GWT + mysql (noob questions)

2009-09-23 Thread charlie
I've used hibernate extensively and have had serious issues with it. The actual SQL code is all generated auto-magically which can lead to problems. I much prefer IBATIS, where the SQL is plainly visible and editable, and you still get simple POJO manipulation. IBATOR can generate most of the sq

Re: GWT + mysql (noob questions)

2009-09-23 Thread PJ Gray
Thanks for the information. I feel fairly comfortable with GWT and GWT-RPC now. I implemented the command pattern & MVP pattern as per Ray Ryans talk, for my communication over RPC. That gave me a pretty good crash course! I am sure there are details in there I'll be learning along the way tho

Re: GWT + mysql (noob questions)

2009-09-23 Thread Trevis
I dont have any tutorials at hand but your understanding of where the DB code lies is correct. It's totally on the server side and has nothing to do with GWT. Your GWT app would get access to the data via RPC. The RPC methods would in turn get data from the DB. Hibernate is an ORM (object rela

GWT + mysql (noob questions)

2009-09-23 Thread PJ Gray
I am writing a fairly large web app using GWT in Eclipse.My background is as a c++ desktop developer, so while I have used java before, sometimes I stumble on easy stuff. Anyway, I am currently attempting to implement a database to store data from my webapp. I am far from an expert in SQL, b