Guys,
this was posted in WebObjects mailing list, just some guy's experience with
CocoBase. Since I think it is (together with TopLink) our main competitor,
I thought you'd be interested.
Andrei
>From: "Stuart Charlton"
>To: webobjects-de..mnigroup.com
>CC: olga_berge..otmail.com
>Subject: Re: CocoBase vs. EOF
>Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 00:09:17 -0400
>
>>Does anybody have any practical experience that can speak to the
>>strengths
>>and weaknesses of CocoBase; and how it compares to EOF?
>
>Yes, I've used CocoBase a bit (not extensively).
>
>CocoBase is an "intrusive" O/R mapper to me. It is code-generation
>intensive and requires tremendous hook-code in your underlying
>business
>objects. EOF just requires a subclass of EOCustomRecord, and if you
>use
>accessors, calls to willChange() and willRead().
>
>EOF also has a much richer / simpler ability to bulk read/write
>fields and
>set bi-directional relationships. It has good support for
>optimizing
>queries.
>
>EOModeler I find to be much better than Coco's UI.
>
>CocoBase also supports EJB but that benefit is really questionable
>given
>that container managed persistence in EJB 1.1 is utterly useless
>without
>proprietary extensions. And EJB 2.0 persistence is apparently going
>to
>change completely from what the final draft currently states.
>
>EOF is a far superior product. If you want a real competitor, look
>at
>WebGain's TopLink.
>
>Hope this helps
>Stu
>
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