Re: DAO and DTO Generation

["Christopher R. Gardner" <crgardner@charter.net>]

I am familiar with xdoclet.  I was hoping to find something that would generate
regular java classes (not ejbs), though.  Thanks.



----- Original Message -----
From: "Jerzy Puchala" <jerzypuc@scdi.com>
To: "Christopher R. Gardner" <crgardner@charter.net>
Cc: <ajug-members@ajug.org>
Sent: Friday, September 13, 2002 9:04 PM
Subject: Re: DAO and DTO Generation


> Hi,
>
> check it out:
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/xdoclet/
> plus
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/middlegen/
>
> middlegen is generating entity beans prepared for xdoclet. After this
> xdoclet is generating interfaces for each class + deployment
> descriptors for the EJB container of your choice.
>
> Take versions from CVS. When I was starting playing there was some
> misundersanding between this two if you took official releases they
> does not work, but this was 5 months ago.
>
> Best luck
>
> Jerzy
>
>
>
> On Fri, 13 Sep 2002, Christopher R. Gardner wrote:
>
> > Any suggestions for tools that generate data access objects and data
> > transfer objects?  I'm interested in tools that ideally
> >
> > * don't make your business objects inherit from a framework base class
> > * are priced right (e.g., not the price of a CocoaBase)
> > * are easy to use
> > * can examine a database schema to generate the code
> >
> > I've looked a little at Torque.  I think it makes you inherit from a
framework
> > base class.  Also, I don't know how reliable it is (especially running in a
> > Weblogic EJB container).  I've heard that Castor has lots of bugs.  JDO is
still
> > too new.  TopLink I think is priced high.  OJB (another jakarta product) is
in
> > an early release.  I feel like I'm running out of pre-built  options and I
don't
> > have time to write my own.  Any comments on some of the products I've named
(and
> > others)?
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
> > Chris Gardner
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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