Kalpesh,
"You get what you pay for!"
Actually, in this case, you get quite a lot for what you pay ($0). Could
the documentation be better, sure. Could the examples be better, maybe --
they are pretty good. Any new technology has a learning curve -- if you
spent the big bucks for one of the commercial O/R mappers you might very
well find that you had as long or longer a learning curve. At least with
Cayenne you have access to the source if you are having problems. The
technical support here and from Andrus is incredible.
I have looked at several commercial and "free" O/R mapping products and
think that Cayenne is probably the best I have seen. I do find it fairly
intuitive although the jump from thinking about DB from a relational
point-of-view to an OO viewpoint is not easy. In relational, I tend to think
from the top-down while I find in OO that "thinking" from the bottom (or
nearly so) up works better.
I would suggest giving it a weeks worth of time or so to try it out. I tend
to use such tools on existing databases to reverse engineer the O/R mapping
but that is not the best approach (most relational databases are not very
OO-friendly).
Best,
Joe
On 9/17/04 3:01 PM, "kalpesh modi" <modi_kalpes..ahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I would like to comment that the Cayenne framework has
> really very very poor help, documentation, sample
> tutorials.
> I am really frustrated using this product.
> No help. No books !!!!!
>
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> -Kalpesh
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