On Tuesday 04 January 2005 12:55, Jim Barrows wrote: > > From: Mark McWiggins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > * Is AppFuse worth using as a basis for a real app? I tried > > working through the tutorial and got it going, > > but it is based on Hibernate and I was told that > > Hibernate may not be mature enough for deployment? > > I don't know who told you either of those, but both statement are wrong. > AppFuse can use Hibernate, iBatis or JDBC. Says so right on the box. > Hibernate is more then mature enough for deploymnet. Matt Raible uses both > appfuse and Hibernate for his production projects.
Matt Raible _is_ AppFuse, isn't he? I started out a week ago with Matt's SpringLive tutorial and think I have Hibernate jumping through the hoops now. It works great. > > > * Any other tools or techniques that you fervently recommend or > > recommend avoiding? > > Appfuse is nice if you want something that is IDE agnostic. Yeah, I plugged it right into JDeveloper. > Spring is massively cool for wiring everything together. It is! It took me quite some time to figure out why I would want to use it, because it's so "behind the scenes" you can't see what it's doing. > Avoid Java on the AS400 in general. Come on, Jim, you know you really wanted to say "Avoid the AS400 in general." :-) -- derek --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]