Re: DAO and DTO Generation

["Michael Misha Shengaout" <mshenga@pobox.com>]

Look at Objectstyle Cayenne (http://sourceforge.net/projects/cayenne/). It
is an open source project, although it is in Alpha 3, it is already used in
by NHL (National Hockey League) and is reasonably reliable. Also, you get
decent support from the mailing list.

Misha

----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher R. Gardner" <crgardner@charter.net>
To: "AJUG" <ajug-members@www.ajug.org>
Sent: Friday, September 13, 2002 7:54 PM
Subject: DAO and DTO Generation


> Any suggestions for tools that generate data access objects and data
> transfer objects?  I'm interested in tools that ideally
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> * 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
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> 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)?
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> Thank you.
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> Chris Gardner
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