iBATIS and the Enterprise Database

About this Presentation

This presentation will focus on database challenges that object oriented developers often face in an enterprise environment. Object Relational Mapping (ORM) tools are not ideal for all databases, and therefore alternatives such as iBATIS must be sought.

First and foremost, we'll show a very simple example of how iBATIS works. Just to be cool, we'll do it with AJAX (access the database from JavaScript! Oh my!)

Then we'll focus on using the iBATIS Data Mapper to achieve similar advantages as provided by an ORM tool, but without some of the complications that can arise from an object relational mapping approach. The iBATIS Data Mapping framework is a popular alternative to ORM tools, while being a complementary addition to any architecture.