Article:		iBatis DAO
Subject:		Spring?
Date:		2005-08-11 11:51:25
From:		stnfdnacho
Isn't Spring's DAO layer essentially the same thing as this? It can use SQL Maps or JDBC or Hibernate, etc. Why would you use this over Spring? Andy O

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• Spring?
  2005-08-13 07:58:34  laker2000 [View]
  
  
  No. Spring's DAO layer kinda sucks. For simple stuff is it fine. But as soon as you start using paramerterized queries, stored proc, etc. it becomes more tedious that raw jdbc.
• Spring?
  2005-08-17 06:42:04  mraible1 [View]
  
  
  What about using Spring's DAO layer to simplify accessing iBATIS? I like it because it allows you to set primary keys w/o having database-specific code in your SQL.xml mapping files (example (http://tinyurl.com/c5zbs) ). Of course, if iBATIS supported JDBC 3.0 and getGeneratedKeys(), there might be a more elegant solution. Last time I checked (http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IBATIS-142) , they didn't support it.