Andrus,
I added a news item but I don't know how to update the home page.
Info appreciated.
Thanks,
-bd-
On Oct 28, 2006, at 9:46 AM, Bill Dudney wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Just wanted to let you all know about last week..the software
> summit (www.softwaresummit.com).
>
> I presented;
>
> http://bill.dudney.net/roller/resources/bill/Cayenne.pdf
>
> at the conference.
>
> There were about 600 people there and about 60 or 70 made it to one
> of the talks I did on Cayenne. Generally everyone liked the idea of
> Cayenne, there was a broad range of experience with R/O mapping,
> some had done hibernate but many were doing straight JDBC or
> iBatis. The JDBC'ers were very impressed with Cayenne, and the
> hibernater's were pumped about the modeler :-)
>
> Over all Cayenne was well received and I hope to see at least a
> little of an uptick in the user list and maybe a new developer or two.
>
> A couple of specific observations;
>
> 1) JPA support was high on many folks list of stuff that they
> wanted to see.
> 2) One of the guys at the show backed up cayenne modeler to his 500
> + table oracle db and the modeler pulled in all the metadata
> flawlessly. He was quite impressed!
> 3) A lot of people still don't get the R/O thing. I was surprised
> at the # of folks using iBatis to manage complex object graphs and
> essentially re-implementing the relationship handling code on top
> of iBatis.
>
> If you have any notes or comments on the preso please feel free to
> send them to me. I'll be updating the preso and giving it again I'm
> sure. On that note it is licensed under creative commons so feel
> free to use it at your local JUG or whatever to spread the word
> about Cayenne.
>
> TTFN,
>
> -bd-
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