Re: Struts, Tomcat, JNDI, JDBC without use of an ORM Library such as Hibernate

Jazz, here's a lightweight package that so far has met all of my needs: http://butterfly.jenkov.com/ ... I'll be sure to take a look. Thanks for the response. Jazz - To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Struts, Tomcat, JNDI, JDBC without use of an ORM Library such as Hibernate

Does anyone know of any techniques that would allow a Database Access Object (DAO) to be used from the various actions that make up a Struts application? I have a DAO which, when instantiated, acquires a data source from the servlet container (in this case, Apache Tomcat). Thereafter, I can

Re: Struts, Tomcat, JNDI, JDBC without use of an ORM Library such as Hibernate

We use Spring (and Spring-LDAP) for that layer. It works great, manages all our DAO's and their resources, and then injects them into the Actions as needed. Chris, At the moment, i'm trying to reaquaint myself with the ins and out of Struts (I haven't touched it for several years), so I

Re: Struts, Tomcat, JNDI, JDBC without use of an ORM Library such as Hibernate

So want your DAO's to be singletons? You would have to make them Thread-safe (or synchronize and kill performance), beware that database connections are not thread-safe. Please note that i'm using using the database connection pooling facilities provided by the Servlet Container (Apache

Re: Struts, Tomcat, JNDI, JDBC without use of an ORM Library such as Hibernate

I'll echo the Spring suggestion. It simplifies Action-level programming by quite a bit. On the flip side, it requires some extra XML configuration, but IMO it's a good tradeoff. Spring seems to be quite popular here. I'm somewhat reluctant because Spring provides a lot more than just