Re: Fad of the month Java data access question.

As you know I have very few opinions on any subject. In this case it is of course enhanced by being purely theoretical knowledge (since we are an MS shop). Given that I would suggest thatyou consider only

JDBC - this will always (!) work and is a pure data access layer. Use it when all you want is data access.
EJB - Use this in OO environments. Use carefully.

This is somewhat (IMO) reinforced by the difficulty in finding sample apps that use anything else. If folk can't/haven't coded sample apps with the technology how good is it going to be.

I'd also be an advocate of .net but then that won't win any popularity prizes so it must be crap right?

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Niall Litchfield
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> Just having a conference with our Java developers. Plenty of data access

> technologies being bandied around

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> JDO,DAO,JDBC,EJB -

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> some of these just look like the Emperor's new clothes - trying to foist

the


> old OODB concept back at us

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> Question : Which ones are currently in serious use out there and have a

good


> chance of actually being around in a few years ?

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> If you are now part of a serious Java development , and could start it all

> over, which data access technology would you use ?

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>  Browsing the various cheerleading web sites for all these technologies

and


> also watching people like Nuno who have strong opinions on this kind of

> thing is leaving me slightly confused.

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