On Jun 4, 2004, at 3:44 PM, James Treleaven wrote:
> I am happy to hear you are open to integration with these other
> frameworks. Let me take a step back and say that I think it can
> possibly have two benefits:
>
> (a) If someone comes up with a good "lightweight container"
> architecture it could be very good for the entire open-source-Java
> community. There are all of these packages being written (for
> logging[Log4j], unit testing[JUnit], ORM[Cayenne], web application
> development[Tapestry]) and a standard framework that allows a
> developer to easily combine and configure them might, I think, make
> the whole "ecosystem" more productive and evolve even faster than it
> is already doing. Or maybe not - Spring and Hivemind are still tagged
> 'research' in my mind. But if it does I of course would like Cayenne
> to be a part of it.
This is how I see it too.
> (iii) a project like Spring adding code to their project to support
> Hibernate
I'll talk to Spring developers about Cayenne at some point (unless
someone starts working on the integration before I do). What's holding
me now is the need to do more research about the best integration path
(and the need to work on 1.1 Beta of course).
> Anyway, perhaps implementing the existing roadmap for Cayenne is the
> most immediate concern.
Well, this is the thing... Spring integration is definitely in the
plan. But I can only do that much work on my own. Past experience shows
that the most valuable contributions to Cayenne were made by people who
actually needed a feature X or Y for their own work. This is a classic
open source scenario. If someone needs Cayenne to work with Spring for
a concrete project, I am sure this will happen much faster than
planned.
> And I think I can be a better Cayenne constituent: I have had one
> difficulty with Cayenne with respect to the creation of the
> '<obj-relationship>' and '<db-relationship>' entries in my XML files
> in that I had to build them by hand, I couldn't get the modeler to add
> them for me. If I can figure out how to get the modeler to do this
> for me than I can post enthusiastic messages to theserverside.com and
> other places about Cayenne. So I will try again with the latest
> version of the modeler - and ask for help if I still can't figure out
> how to do it.
Please do that. Nobody has complained about this particular problem so
far. And we have a wonderful bugtracker after all :-)
Andrus
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