Re: [Springframework-developer] 1.0 M4 ready for release

[Rod J. <rod...@in...>]

> Is Spring now shipping with iBATIS rather than it's own jdbc layer?

No. iBATIS is supported out of the box as another data access choice, along
with Spring JDBC, Hibernate and JDO. Remember that one of Spring's goals is
to enable DAO interfaces to be independent of data access technology, using
Spring's technology-independent exception hierarchy. Thus it makes sense to
support iBATIS as a mature and popular data access technology.

Spring JDBC is still a core part of Spring, and there are significant
enhancements to it in M4. Unlike iBATIS it requires no XML configuration. It
gives total power over SQL, unique stored procedure capabilities etc.

iBATIS is also a good SQL-oriented data access layer, but it has different
strengths and weaknesses.

Regards,
Rod