[Opensource] OR mapping best practices?

[Rick Goeltz]

Gang:

[Mike Traum said...]
 > If you
 > use getField() and setField(), you are essentially accessing the column name
 > directly which gives you no independence from the table schema.

I've been using a technique I learned from the Expresso Job code.  For
example getField(Employee.FLD_NAME).  It's a bit more code but less
typing because Eclipse does the completion for me ;) Perhaps this
should be an Expresso "best practice."

I've got a customer who wants to maintain the data dictionary in an
Excel spreadsheet.  My first step was to read the spreadsheet using
POI.  Next I'm going to write a DBObject that will "do the right
things" based on the information in the spreadsheet.  I think it will
work fine.

 > What I've been doing lately is exposing the DBObject fields with getters and
 > setters.

I've been writing getters but for a different reason.  I've been using
JSTL and I like it a lot; reminds me of Velocity.  For me, it is the
shortest path from a query/DBObject to JSP output.  I see that 5.0.3
includes the JSTL jars and tld's, so someone else is using it also.


Rick