I'd have to agree. I'm not sure how using Spring DAO would be any more overkill than iBATIS itself. It actually isn't adding that much over the top. Far as time goes getting your application to use Spring is minimal. It just isn't that hard. Maybe you don't have a need for any of the other services but if you do then you should use it. You get a lot of power there.
Jason From: Ryan Shelley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 6:56 PM To: user-java@ibatis.apache.org Subject: Re: iBATIS for swing application This is outside the scope of the iBATIS discussion, but why wouldn't you consider using Spring for your application? I've written several non-web-based apps using Spring and can say it simplified the development and configuration of the app, plus, it gives you intrinsic access to a ton of resources, such as iBATIS, out-of-the-box. Unless you've already started heavy development without Spring, it wouldn't be a terrible effort to add it. -Ryan On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 11:09 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, I am a student (college university) working on a part of a fictive project management software system. We received a database dll scheme, so Hibernate was not really an option. It's also a very short project (8 weeks) so iBATIS is definitely a better solution. (shorter learning curve) I've bought iBATIS in action and generated Java Beans and sqlmaps with abator. But now I am stuck. I need some sort of Factory/Facade/Controller for the sqlMaps, but how to code these? It's a desktop app, so isn't the (Spring) DAO overkill??? (I also don't have enough time...) Is it necessary to use a DAO? Is the iBATIS DAO out-of-date because it isn't under development anymore? I don't like the MVC solution we've seen in the Java lessons - manually writing a Connection class, and Mapper classes (Prepared and Callable statements) ...but I also don't really know how to fill in the gap between Swing (view) and the sqlmaps + beans... Any help is greatly appreciated. A desperate ;-) student Greeting, PieterB
