[ANN] Gilead 1.3

[noon]

Hello,

I am pleased to announce the new release of Gilead, an Open-Source
framework for seamless intregration of Hibernate and GWT.

This new release brings new features, such as
- Predefined remote services, for both GWT :
* The Loading service allows you to load an entity or a lazy
association from the GWT side,
* The Request service brings the ability to execute a HQL
request directly from the GWT side,
- A new specific transport annotation (@LimitedAccess) to
implement custom access to entity fields (role based for example)
- Lazy property checking on GWT side, to know if a null
association on client side was already null on server or just lazy but
not loaded (and thus replaced with null by Gilead)
- A ConfigurationHelper class, to limit Gilead configuration to
one line of code

A specific effort has also been made to improve performances and GWT
serialization.

Finally, this release also fixes many issues, reported since 1.2.3,
especially on persistent collections.

Hope this helps !
Bruno

[noon]

Oups, I forgot to post the project URL : http://gilead.sourceforge.net

Regards
Bruno

[flyin...@gmail.com]

I never understand how to use hibernate. It seems so complex and doing
normal mysql commands seems a whole lot eaiser.

[philippe]

To make corporate application Hibernate is mandatory. Without
Hibernate, you can not keep a good level of scalability while
maintaining a satisfactory consistency in your application. The more
you go up in functional complexity, the less you can maintain your
application.

Gilead is a very good API. I use it in my projects. But I only use T
PersistentBeanManager.clone(T) fonctionnality. I don't link to
increase the dependence between Gilead and GWT. Therefore I do not
gilead4gwt. I just prefer to use only The PersistenceBeanManager.

[Matt Moriarity]

Ok that is simply not true. There are cases where Hibernate may be the
right choice but there also plenty of times where something else would
be better. Hibernate is not the only ORM solution for Java. I, for
instance, tend to use iBATIS. It's helpful to have control over the
SQL that is being used.

[philippe]

I said that I was talking about the context of standard business
applications.
IBatis is certainly very useful in highly technical. But in a
functional context, iBatis does not object-oriented programming.