Chapter 14. Putting it all together

This chapter covers

  • Choosing tools
  • Setting up your project
  • Wiring components together

iBATIS is not an island unto itself—it is meant to be part of a whole. iBATIS can be used in conjunction with any application that accesses a SQL database. Given that there are a lot of different applications that may access a SQL database, we’ll focus on one popular type. Web applications are well known and usually access a SQL database somewhere behind the scenes. To put iBATIS into a useful context, we will walk through the creation of a shopping cart application. We tried to come up with something original, so we decided to make it a game store rather than a pet store. Let’s move ahead with putting this application ...

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