Re: What do you think about JDO?

From: Adam Jenkins (adam_at_remove.thejenkins.me.org)
Date: 01/30/04 

Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 11:35:42 -0500

Gerbrand van Dieijen wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 11:59:15 -0500, Adam Jenkins wrote:
>
>
>>One problem I saw with JDO compared to Hibernate last time I checked, is
>>that JDO has no standard way to map objects to an existing database
>>schema. It insists on creating its own schema.
... SNIP ...
>
>
> No, this this depends on the implementation of JDO.
> Most commercial implementations (like JDOGenie, the product I use) allow
> mapping to existing tables as well.

That's why I said no *standard* way. Since it's such an obvious
omission, most JDO vendors have implemented some non-standard way to do
it, but then you're locked into that vendor's JDO implementation.

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