On 11/15/01 3:13 PM, "Jason van Zyl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 11/15/01 3:01 PM, "Peter Royal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Thursday 15 November 2001 02:57 pm, you wrote: >>> The Torque code has been decoupled from Turbine and Martin Poeschl and >>> myself are currently writing a testbed to find the problems that are still >>> present in the code. I'm working on making the connection pool pluggable >>> and we are moving toward using the design of Scott Ambler to make Torque a >>> general persistence layer. >>> >>> What little documentation there is can be found here: >>> >>> http://jakarta.apache.org/turbine/torque >> >> damn. i wish i had found this before i wrote my own :) > > Your tool might work better for your situation. Torque at the moment is very > datamodel-centric and is really useful for those who are used to working > from the datamodel but not ideal for people (like myself) who are accustomed > to working with an object model first. > > Torque creates an object model which is really a thin veneer over top of a > datamodel. So what we provide now is a table mapping to a single object, > this is rarely complete enough a solution in the real world but is fine if > you have complete control over a project. I am trying to work in the designs > of Scott Ambler to make Torque a general persistence layer for an object > model. For example an application may consist of attributes retrieved from ^^^ That's application object, not application > any number of different tables (possibly in different databases), an XML > source or any other location. Scott Ambler's design allows for this, as well > as decoupling the datamodel completely from the object model so that changes > in the way your data is stored does not affect application programmers. > Torque is not there yet but I'm hoping development will move along briskly > once the testbed is complete. > >> -pete -- jvz. Jason van Zyl http://tambora.zenplex.org http://jakarta.apache.org/turbine http://jakarta.apache.org/velocity http://jakarta.apache.org/alexandria http://jakarta.apache.org/commons -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
