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

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