[Opensource] Expresso 4.1 Documentation Promotion

[Geeta Ramani]

Peter: Thanks very much for your notes. I'll try to incorporate what you have to
say in the doc. Thanks again!
Geeta

"Peter A. J. Pilgrim" wrote:

> Geeta Ramani wrote:
> > Hi all:
> >
> > In an effort to make a contribution to the doc enhancements that Sandra
> > has mentioned below and in other notes, I looked at the "Expresso
> > Controller Objects" document under the "Components Overview" section
> > under "Documentation". I submitted a preliminary revision which now
> > seems to be on-site. (Sandra, I thought you were supposed to wait till
> > we resolved the issues I had..! ;)
> >
> > Anyways, here a couple of things I'm concerned about:
> > The last piece on "/Controllers and EJBs/" really doesn't seem ok.
> > Especially the bit about "/Expresso Framework is supposed to have a J2EE
> > mapping / integration. /"..Well, does it or doesn't it? I dont know, so
> > I left it untouched, but maybe someone on this list could clarify this?
> >
> > Further, the bit about "/The difference between DBObjects and
> > EntityBeans/" seems interesting except the subsequent list doesn't seem
> > to point out any differences, but simply lists how an EJB is supposed to
> > behave. I am sure there's something of importance here: I just don't
> > know enough either about EJBs or about DBObjects to comment/correct..
> > Again, could someone explain?
> >
>
> "Expresso Framework is supposed to have a J2EE mapping / integration. With this
> extra piece of software I think that you can program with Expresso's own
> `DBObjects', and these will automatically to EntityBean. A `DBObject' is
> theoretical a heavy duty Data Transfer Hashmap object and so can be mapped to
> any reasonable database table and therefore EntityBean."
>
> Geeta
>
> In the original email that I wrote I thought there was an extra Expresso
> Plugin available, which allowed Expresso to talk to EJBs on J2EE application
> server directly. So you have to ask Sandra directly.
>
> I was speculating in the last sentence about how you can deduce by
> inspection that a DBObject is a glorified hash map.  I was skipping a lot
> of steps in a way for Expresso to talk directly to an Entity Java Beans.
>
> --
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