Fwd: Re: EOF vs. other O/R frameworks

From: Andrei Adamchik (aadamchi..obox.com)
Date: Wed Jun 06 2001 - 15:00:34 EDT


Here is an opinion on Castor (OpenSource framework we looked at when doing
research for cayenne).

By the way, cayenne slowed down significantly in the last month (due to
personal issues like newborn babies, carpal tunnel syndrome, lots of work
during the daytime, etc.)

I hope we will be able to get out of this mode soon.

>Delivered-To: objectstyle-org-andrus-w..bjectstyle.org
>Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2001 09:51:07 -0400
>From: "Chad Leigh, Objectwerks, Inc." <cha..bjectwerks.com>
>
>
>
>--On Tuesday, June 05, 2001 10:20 AM +0200 Anders Björklund
><anders.bjorklun..indmill.se> wrote:
>
>>- Castor
>
>I tried to use Castor for 2 weeks with a servlet I was writing. This may
>not be at all accurate but it was what I found: The lack of real docs is
>atrocious (like most open source). It is based around DB transactions so
>you are only persistent once you enter a transaction until the end of the
>ransaction, at which time the in memory persistent objects "de-persist"
>(they are still persistent in your database but their in memory usefulness
>ends unless you keep the transaction open -- that is how it seemed to
>work in my experience, hopefully it is not correct).
>
>I basically gave up castor and went back to rolling my own wishing that
>EOF was sold separately 9or at the time that WO5 was out)
>
>End result: it doesn't compare, it can only be contrasted.
>
>Chad
>
>
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Andrei



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