Re: OSCache, caching, Decorator pattern

Andrus Adamchik <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.open-symphony.os-cache
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Dec 29, 2003, at 6:50 PM, Sullivan, Sean C - MWT wrote:

> My company is using the DAO pattern for data access operations.
>
> I am looking for articles or books that describe if/how to apply
> the Decorator pattern for the purposes of caching.
>
> Thanks in advance.

Hi Sullivan,

I know that a choice of DAO over other persistent technologies may not 
be yours, and you and your company may have lots of reasons to stay 
with DAO. But it seems to me that by attempting to add things like 
caching to your framework you are basically building your own Object 
Relational Mapping (ORM) implementation. Writing a full-featured ORM 
from scratch and optimizing it for performance (esp. with a distributed 
cache) is far from a trivial task. Adding decorators doesn't make 
things easier either....

Why not use an existing mature ORM framework instead? I can recommend 
Cayenne for an ORM (being one of its creators):

http://objectstyle.org/cayenne/

But there are many other choices as well.

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Andrus Adamchik
Cayenne Object-Relational Framework
http://objectstyle.org/cayenne/



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