Kudos on a very well written article, Andrus and Eric.
In the discussion-forum/comments-section at the end Andrus says:
> My opinion (actually expressed in the article pretty well) is that ORM in Java
> is quickly reaching a point of becoming a commodity meaning that most
> of the first tier tools have all the needed features. So it all comes
> down to the flavor... :-)
I think this is a sophisticated and insightful comment.
I have been having trouble acting as an advocate for Cayenne recently
because Hibernate is getting (more?) first class support in these new
"microkernels" such as Spring and Hivemind. I have been a bit concerned
that Cayenne could get left behind as the various open-source Java
frameworks start to grow relationships among one another.
That said, in the open-source world merit usually gets rewarded ... and
if ORM does become a commodity the Cayenne supporters will easily have
the time to do the work necessary to provide first class support for
Cayenne in Spring/Hivemind/Whatever.
James
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