Ok, good to know - thanks again.
On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 4:35 PM, Kevin Sutter <kwsut...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 2:59 PM, Chris Wolf <cwolf.a...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Ok, I think I have it all straight now and I really appreciate you >> hanging in there to answer my questions. In closing, I'll make some >> remarks, which are not time-critical to answer, since your answers >> have already provided all I need to proceed. However: >> >> 1.) You said the DelayCollectionLoading was relatively new - so what >> would people do in the scenario of one-to-many (or m-2-m) >> and having huge numbers of child entities, before this feature was >> introduced? >> > > Why do you think we introduced this feature? :-) Seriously, this was a > concern. If a one-to-many collection had a ton of elements, you better > hope they were running on a 64bit jvm and had plenty of memory... > > >> 2.) What do other OR mapping providers do? e.g. Hibernate or Datanucleus >> JDO? >> > > I believe Hibernate has similar functionality. I have no idea if > Datanucleus does or not. > > >> >> Thanks again, >> >> Chris >> >> >> On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 3:47 PM, Kevin Sutter <kwsut...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 2:20 PM, Chris Wolf <cwolf.a...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> >> Or is "non-indexed" referring to not traversing the collection while >> >> adding or removing? >> >> >> > >> > Correct. >> > >> > The word "proxy" is overloaded and is used in several contexts. OpenJPA >> > proxies Collections (and a few other types like Dates and Timestamps) so >> > that we can monitor updates to these object types. But, that is totally >> > separate from the enhancement proxy mechanism that some JPA vendors >> provide >> > to monitor updates to the whole Entity. >> > >> > Good questions! >> > Kevin >>
