Antwort: AW: [OJB-developers] Documentation

[<Joa...@tp...>]

Hy,

first of all, sorry for the bad quoting (I have to use Lotus Notes). (And
sorry Thomas, for the duplicate, but I think this belongs to the list, and
I accidently sent it to you alone)

>> Our main problem with OJB at the moment is
>> the pretty steep learning curve.
>
> Leraning with respect to API? Mapping?

It seems the hardes part is setup, configuration and mapping, the API looks
good. (I havent looked to much into it, but a co-worker said it's easy to
use).


> Did you have a look at the document "how to setup OJB with a specific
RDBMS"
> (http://objectbridge.sourceforge.net/rdbms-support.html). This document
> explains all steps necessary to run OJB with a given DB.

I found it ... too late ;-) Initially i tried it the
"don't-read-any-documentation"-way and I thought MySQL was supported,
'cause there was some initial support in the build.xml. After I found out
that only the very basics of MySQL-support were included (and it seems that
it is out of date) it was no problem to fix it. Another iritating fact was
that builds (especially test & run_*_examples) produce lots of spurious
warnings (especially for MySQL, where every test produces 2 (or 3,
depending on the width of your terminal) lines with warnings about a
missing PlatformImpl).

All in all it seems that it's just initial problems that are overcome with
some work. But in my experience its this little problems that make people
look for other tools. (Which would be sad, 'cause aside from these OJB
looks great).

regards
Joachim Sauer