Mike Clark looks at some of the nifty parts of Active Record. As an aside, I realize this post happened almost a month ago.
One of the very nice things about AR is the amount of control you can have. If you are only doing CRUD-type queries, AR handles everything for you. If you need something a bit more complex, it allows you to step in and do what you need to. It would be nice to get Hibernate to this level.
Now, don't think I am picking on Hibernate. After using it exclusively on a project, I enjoy it greatly. But I see all of the setup that needs to happen before it can be used. It would seemingly be a very good idea to wrap most of that into a pre-configured package which would read the existing domain model and work accordingly.
Posted by Josh at July 30, 2005 08:07 AM | TrackBack