[Fwd: Re: [Xdoclet-user] announcement: XSnapshot (XDoclet module) 1.1 beta released]

Apologies for the cross-post -- thought this would be appropriate in the 
XDoclet-announce list.

On Tue, 2005-10-04 at 23:38, Bill Schneider wrote:
> XSnapshot is a module for XDoclet similar to the @ejb.value-object tags 
> but much more flexible.  It creates DTOs from "snapshots" of a POJO 
> domain model, so it works with Hibernate and is not coupled to EJB.
> 
> The original purpose of XSnapshot is to make it easier to pass 
> Hibernate-persisted POJOs around with a remoting framework like Hessian, 
> AJAX/DWR or Axis.  But it's also extremely useful for generating 
> POJO-bound Struts ActionForms as well.  The value over the current 
> @struts.form tag is its ability to handle relationship-to-ID conversion 
> and vice versa.  If you want to add a new many-to-one relationship to a 
> POJO data class, and a corresponding <select> widget in a JSP, you only 
> have to touch those two files.  You don't have to add a special case for 
>   "Bar b = BarManager.getBar(form.getBarId()); foo.setBar(b)" to your 
> Action.
> 
> XSnapshot is available at xsnapshot.sf.net.  The example application 
> shows how to use XSnapshot with Hibernate and Struts.  Documentation is 
> very thin now but more should be coming soon.  I hope you will find it 
> useful!
> 
> Cheers,
> Bill

-- 
Bill Schneider
Chief Architect

Vecna Technologies, Inc.
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