>> Wow - your first e-mail about this in 6 months since Abator came out.
It's the first of a very specific kind: 1) personal and 2) confused about abator.
>> That doesn't sounds like an epidemic of confusion to me.
Are you suggestiong we wait until it is? Abator has been successful and that's a good thing. But we don't want any confusion around Abator's role and dependencies of iBATIS. There's also a clear difference of philosophy, as I've described before. Abator is a code generator, something I hoped to avoid with iBATIS. But as iBATIS grew it came into its own level of redundancy, which Abator does a nice job of dealing with.
But going forward, we don't want people to think iBATIS == code generation.
>> But you have as much access to the web site as I do. If you've got a clarifying statement you want to add somewhere, then feel free.
Will do.
Cheers,
Clinton
On 7/13/06, Jeff Butler <
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Wow - your first e-mail about this in 6 months since Abator came out. That doesn't sounds like an epidemic of confusion to me.But you have as much access to the web site as I do. If you've got a clarifying statement you want to add somewhere, then feel free.Jeff Butler
On 7/13/06, Clinton Begin < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Okay...so today I got my first personal email from a very confused user:
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Dear sir,i'm new to ibatis.thru abator i generated files such as,2 dao classes,3 java classes and 1 sql map file for each table.inorder to retrieve data from a table anddisplay vat i have to do.i 'm nt getting any idea by seeing JpetStore.that is different from the files created by abator 4 me.---------------------------
Okay, so there's a clear language issue. But beyond that, this person does not understand that Abator is NOT iBATIS (and vice versa).
Jeff: Can you suggest a way to clarify that Abator and similar tools are not required, nor are they a "part" of iBATIS?
Tools are very valuable, but we must ensure that iBATIS remains independent and that everyone understands the boundaries.
Cheers,
Clinton
