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

[Steven S. <ste...@ip...>]

On Friday 02 January 2004 18:00, Rod Johnson wrote:
> > 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.

That's nice, Rod. Thanks for clearing it up.