Re: Looking for a lightweight persistance framwork

From:

Lew <noone@lewscanon.com>

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comp.lang.java.programmer

Date:

Sat, 16 May 2009 13:33:41 -0400

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Mark Space wrote:

Here's a list, at least. I can't recommend one above another. If you
do choose one from this list, post your impressions to this group, I
think some folks would be interested.

<http://java-source.net/open-source/persistence>

I've used Torque. It sucked.

I've used Castor, a little. It's a bit clunky, but serviceable. I don't like
it as much as other alternatives.

I've studied JDO and used it slightly. Go with JPA.

I've used OpenJPA and Hibernate quite a bit. Both are strong products that
aren't too difficult to use at all. (I am still not good at getting
automagical injection of entities and entity managers, though. It hasn't been
much of a handicap; I just instantiate explicitly based on the
persistence.xml.) The list omits EclipseLink (erst TopLink) for some reason;
it's another JPA layer that is very reliable.

Use a JPA framework. It's easier than raw JDBC calls, more effective and far
easier than other ORM frameworks I've used, performs well and is quite reliable.

--
Lew