iBatis is another persistence technology. Think of it as a halfway step from straight JDBC to ORM (e.g., Hibernate). It takes away some of the tedium of writing JDBC but still lets you remain close to the SQL.
If you found that you didn't like the SQL that Hibernate generated for you, iBatis can be a good alternative. You can give it hand-optimized SQL.
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> thanks for the quick answer,
> still dealing with ibatis. Another question is. i've
> got some jar file (like : ibatis-common-2.jar,
> ibatis-dao-2.jar, and ibatis-sqlmap-2.jar). where i
> put this file to the IDE?
I usually put 3rd party JARs in a project directory called /lib or something like that. Then I tell my IDE to add those JARs to the CLASSPATH.
> and what that files for? (i
> am using netbeans 5.5 bundle with jdk 1.6).
Uh, those are the iBatis classes, dude. Sure you're up to this?
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you said "add those jars to the classpath".
is it automatically IDE's do or we have to add this jars manual?
Uh, those are the iBatis classes, dude. Sure you're up to this?
thats why....i am still confusing about ibatis, is there any ebooks or
somethings that can help me to fully understand about that?
thanks.