Hi,
Ive recently been working with images, but not displaying a gallery yet.
My approach was to store the imags on the File system and reference them in
the database.
I wrote some code to manage the synch between database and file system.
The most frustrating part was the ability to manage mul
I havent used Compass, but my gut feel is that it may be easier to just
integrate Lucene directly.
There are good tutorials on this too, google: appfuse + lucene
Easier still would be to stick to SQL/hibernate based queries as Lucene
requires an additional module and extra
logic in synching up yo
My 2 cents:
It depends on the business logic relevent to that data set.
If a data set is read only and always expected in the system, there may be a
case to throw an exception in the data layer. This would also be useful if
other objects or DAO's may make nested calls on that specific DAO as par
