On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Balwinder <balwinder....@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Wes, > > What I need is something like, if I want to access data from a database, i > can use SQL, but if i change the source to LDAP then the access mechanism > will change from SQL to LDAP specifics, now if the same data goes to flat > file than again my mechanism will change, so all I need is some framework > that if when source is changed its access mechanism should remain same. Hope > this explains what I am looking for. >
Based on that, I am going to reiterate my original pointer to the DAO pattern. What you are looking for (IMO) is too high-level to be be implemented by a framework. There are ambitious attempts, such as spring-data (http://www.springsource.org/spring-data). However, you will see that they don't mention LDAP support. Conversely, if you read the original link about the DAO *pattern* and implement that pattern using a good IoC (spring), you will achieve your goal with very little effort. Then, you will find that spring / struts play nicely together and you will be very happy. As a reassurance, I use the DAO approach with IoC and have a library, developed internally, that we use to manage security. This allows us to retrieve users from a database, if the database modules are wired in, or use LDAP if the LDAP / Active Directory modules are wired in. -Wes -- Wes Wannemacher Head Engineer, WanTii, Inc. Need Training? Struts, Spring, Maven, Tomcat... Ask me for a quote! --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@struts.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@struts.apache.org
