Hi Robert, Cayenne gives you a little more information that Hibernate, it that you can get all the DbAttributes assocated with an CayenneObject, e.g. the maximum string/varchar length.
If you are doing very generic code, it can be useful to add a public accessor method to get at the internal Cayenne map of properties. regards Malcolm Edgar On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 1:47 AM, Robert Zeigler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Since we've been on the topic of hibernate and cayenne... I had a > question for those cayenne users who have used hibernate. > On the tapestry user list, there's been some discussion lately about > generic edit pages for objects. Most recently, a user mentioned > having 30 entities and thus having 30 edit pages. The user was > wondering if there was some way to have a single edit page for all of > those entities. I have an app right now with about 20 user-editable > entities. The "view" page for all of these entities is the same. The > "edit" page for all of these entities is the same. Note also that > this includes sorting, and the view table does interesting things like > filtering, sorting, links between objects in relationships, etc. All > of this is possible largely due to cayenne's rich support of object > meta-data, with lots of information about properties and relationships. > > So my question is: does hibernate make the same amount of metatdata > available that cayenne does? > > Robert > > >
