Re: Apache JDBC utils

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Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net>

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Tue, 01 May 2012 10:32:38 -0700

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On 4/30/12 2:55 PM, markspace wrote:

Hey all,

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:

[snip].

That's a lot less 'faffing about' reading the fields of a ResultSet into
a simple bean, and a much higher signal-to-noise ratio imo.

The problem is, this only works for reading a simple entity. There
doesn't seem to be any equivalent for update, create, or delete.

So my question is: does any have experience with dbutils and see's
something I'm missing? Would you take a look at the docs even if you
don't have experience with dbutils?

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

Why avoid ORM? They do exactly what you're asking, and do it fairly well
for simple situations. If you find something that does what you're
asking without "faffing about", then you've found an ORM. You can always
use introspection to do that work yourself for creates/updates, but at
that point you've created a rudimentary ORM.

Anyway, I'm in the middle of adding basic update and create, and it's
actually going well. (It'd be going better if I weren't some clumsy with
SQL syntax.) But I thought I'd ask to see what other ideas the folks
here on this news group might have.

I know this isn't the answer you're looking for, but look into ORMs.
Unless you have a good reason to keep it low level, but realistically
there are only three reasons to do that, educational exercise or you're
building your own ORM, fear of the unknown.

Good luck with your endeavors,
Daniel.

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