Andrus,
FYI, i've been in correspondence with Colin from the Spring team.....I
figured I'd forward this on.
e.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Colin Sampaleanu" <colinml..xis.com>
To: <eri..entralparksoftware.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 6:36 PM
Subject: Re: Hibernate or Cayenne?
> Btw Eric, I am one of the developers of the Spring Framework
> http://www.springframework.org/
>
> Spring is an IOC container which actually includes features such as
> declarative/programmatic transaction handling, and Hibernate integration
> classes which do things like automatically create and bind a hibernate
> session to the current thread or transaction synchronization, integrated
> transactions with straight jdbc code, exception mapping to match the
> JDBC hierarchy, among other niceties.
> http://www.springframework.org/docs/reference/orm.html#orm-hibernate
> Pretty well everybody who's used Hibernate standalone and then tried
> using it with Spring has said that Spring adds a lot of value (I am in
> this camp myself) and is the missing piece in using an O/R mapper in or
> outside of a J2EE container.
>
> You guys should maybe take a look and see if it makes sense to have any
> kind of Spring-Cayenne integration. It could be taken to different
> levels. I know adding iBatis integration a little while ago wasn't a big
> deal, although there's nothing similar to Hibernate's session handling
> (not needed really), but rather mostly convenience code.
>
> Feel free to forward this to any of the other Cayenne people...
>
> Regards,
> Colin
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