Nice to hear about this. Is there any sort of specialized
PlatformTransactionManager variant (akin to HibernateTransactionManager)
needed?
Given that Cayenne is pretty decent from what I know, and is
open-source, I've got nothing against including this code directly in
Spring...
Colin
Peng Wang wrote:
>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>From: Andrus Adamchik <an...@ob...>
>Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 18:53:28 -0500
>Subject: Re: Configuring Cayenne with Spring (preview)
>To: cay...@ob...
>
>
>One last thing before I leave...
>
>http://objectstyle.org/downloads/cayenne/demos/cayenne-spring.tar.gz
>
>This is a first cut of Cayenne/Spring integration package. This
>download contains classes from "org.springframework.orm.cayenne"
>package, a few unit tests and a complete Spring PetClinic web
>application done in Cayenne. It is in a good enough shape, so when I
>get back from vacation I am planning to submit it to Spring project
>(don't know what is their current policy on accepting third-party
>integration packages; if they don't take them anymore, we'll release it
>in Cayenne).
>
>Supported features:
>
>* Recasting Cayenne exceptions to Spring DAO exceptions. Some of it is
>a bit artificial, as we don't have deep inheritance hierarchy of
>exceptions. Still it has its value, e.g. SQL exceptions are unwrapped
>and passed to Spring for further analysis.
>
>* CayenneTemplate - a Spring facade to DataContext that does
>DataContext "injection", exception handling, etc. Actually it is a
>pretty nice thing in itself... Template is stateless (relying on thread
>DataContext) and can be subclassed and customized to intercept various
>DataContext operations.
>
>* Automatic DataContext rollback on failures. There was a question
>about it on cayenne-user recently
>(http://objectstyle.org/cayenne/lists/cayenne-user/2004/12/0087.html).
>With CayenneTemplate this can be implemented as a policy (see
>"autoRollback" property).
>
>* WebInterceptor - a way to bind HttpSession DataContext to the request
>thread from Spring configuration.
>
>* ConfigurationFactory - a factory to load Cayenne project in Spring
>without relying on static Configuration (something that Cayenne does
>right now by default). ConfigurationFactory also supports overriding
>DataSource for all project DataNodes, so you can configure DataSource
>in Spring if you want to.
>
>Please let me know if anyone has any feedback.
>
>Andrus
>
>
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