[OJB-developers] OJB reviewed ! [not to say re-invented ;-)]

[Mahler T. <tho...@it...>]

Hi all,
 
OJB has finally hit the academic world!
I found an interesting link on the web pointing to a BA thesis covering the
design of an O/R framework.
The Framework is called Jakamar.
http://www.lap.ttu.ee/erki/failid/konspekt/bakalaureusetoo/thesis.pdf
<http://www.lap.ttu.ee/erki/failid/konspekt/bakalaureusetoo/thesis.pdf> 
 
IMHO Jakamar reuses a lot of things from OJB and its underlying concepts.
The presentation gives a good overview of the Jakamar (OJB) architecture and
the design pattern based approach.
 
The thesis even contains a performance comparison between Jakamar and OJB
and a feature comparison. (I won't comment on those comparisons here)
 
I like some of the ideas presented (e.g. PersistenceBroker provides factory
methods to obtain queries). Sometimes the naming of classes is better than
in OJB.
 
I think it is a good idea to have a deeper look at this thesis. Maybe we can
ask the author to share ideas or even collaborate directly.
 
cu,
 
Thomas