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Rod & All,

Spring got a nice plugg from Gavin King in the interview on the ServerSide that
has just been posted. ( http://www.theserverside.com/events/index.jsp )

Q: One of the reasons why transparent persistence may not be getting as much
attention is because a lot people just aren’t writing domain models. Why do you
think people are not yet adopting such a good object-oriented paradigm yet?

A: Firstly, not every application needs a domain model. There are lots of
applications for which a domain model is absolute overkill. There are lots of
applications for which a view of sets of data coming out of the database is
absolutely appropriate. And there’s all kinds of good tools in Java, in the open
source community, for writing that kind of application well, things like the
Spring Framework give you great ways of getting away a bit from very messy JDBC
code, but writing those kind of applications which pull some stuff form the
database and display it on the screen, or insert a row of data into the
database. You don’t need a domain model to do those kinds of things.

Thomas