Chapter 10. iBATIS Integration
In the previous chapter, you saw how to use JDBC in Spring applications. Even though Spring goes a long way toward simplifying JDBC development, you will find that you still have a lot of code to write to use JDBC.
One elegant solution to avoiding all this code is to use an object-relational mapping (ORM) tool, which maps the data rows and creates appropriate Java objects. In order for such mapping tools to access Java objects in a standardized fashion, they have to follow Java bean naming conventions. For example, the mapping tools can also set referenced objects that result from a join operation.
There are two basic types of ORM frameworks: those in which you can rely on the framework to generate all the SQL statements ...
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