I was able to find my old notes from when we were evaluating O/R mappers. Along with Ibatis.net and nHibernate, the other products that had made it onto our ...
Thanks Matt! I think I'm going to investigate Ibatis further. Rick From: PittsburghAltNet@yahoogroups.com [mailto:PittsburghAltNet@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf...
Hey guys, I added a resource page to our wiki listing links to a bunch of the different technologies we talked about Friday night (thanks for posting all of...
Hi Jeremy, First, thanks for getting this started. I think it's pretty good idea. Regarding OR mappers, I think Castle's ActiveRecord deserves notable ...
Hi Gino, You're welcome, I'm just thrilled that I have other people to talk about alternative technologies with now :o) Thanks for the info about ActiveRecord,...
Gino, glad you found the user group.. I totally forgot to forward the link to you the other day as life/work happened when I got back to my desk. Many ...
Jeremy-- In regards to our talk last Friday about performance concerns with O/R mappers, I just thought of performance related scenario that I have run into in...
Gino, Active Record does seem to be somewhat more attractive than pure NHibernate, but in regards to Jim's research that revealed the performance hit on *dirty...
Rick, I agree. For me, AR is a no brainer choice for green field, but with legacy dbs, stuffed with stored procedures and/or triggers one has to be very...
Jim Thanks for the info, that's good to know. How difficult is it to write custom sprocs under NHibernate and refer to them with code. For example, in our...
Great explanation Gino! The *gist* would have to be deep thought on a per project basis if an ORM can be used effectively to reflect domain boundaries.. I...
There are a few reasons I don't really like the active record pattern. For one, all classes that must descend from the ActiveRecordBase class. If you look a...
Great point Tony about the leakage in the domain of an attribute-based map. It would seem that it would require, at least, an extra layer of abstraction ...
Tried to install the DSL tools with ActiveWriter and I get an Administrator privileges error "Your system administrator has set policies that prevent this...
Very true - glueing AR straight onto domain class will quickly spend your inheritance (n0 pun intended...;-)), and mix the db details into the domain. On the...
There is a project called NHibernate.Mapping.Attributes (http://www.hibernate.org/hib_docs/nhibernate/html/mapping-attributes.html) This allows you to decorate...
I don't like the mapping attributes for the same reason I don't like ActiveRecord... now my domain layer knows about the database. The HBMs are the lesser of...
I've been thinking about a fluent interface for the mappings also. The biggest reason would be to support refactoring. Having strings for the names of classes...
Happy New Year!!! I hope that everyone had just a fun, and just as busy, holiday season as myself. Now that we're all coming out of that holiday slumber, let's...
Hey Jeremy and crew-- I'm available pretty much whenever and have no problems with the previous venue. I like the idea of having a topic or two designated ...
Any time/place works for me - no complaints about the previous location though. I like the free-flowing conversation, but I agree that having a topic or 2 in...
Hello folks, Happy New Year!! I'm going to go with Matt and Jim; have a couple of designated topics and let the conversation go where it will after that.. ...
Sounds like everyone is happy with our discussion format, time, and place so let me throw out a tentative meeting request... Date: Friday, January 25th, 2008 ...
Hi Guys, Just a quick reminder... We'll have our January meeting on 1/25/2008 at 6PM at the Starbucks on McKnight Road. We'll be discussing unit testing. If...
Thanks Rick. Here's that Working Effectively with Legacy Code on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Working-Effectively-Legacy-Robert-Martin/dp/0131177052/...
Thanks Jim. From: PittsburghAltNet@yahoogroups.com [mailto:PittsburghAltNet@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Jim Bolla Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2008 8:08 AM ...