Question

I’m asking on opinion about implementing framework that emulates ado.net in java (data tables, data sets etc). Idea is to avoid writing domain objects since they are, so far, just used to transport data from server to client and back, with no particular business methods inside them. Main goal is to speed up development time. Could i benefit from writing this kind of framework? If it’s done before provide link please.

Answer 1

Instead of emulating ADO.NET, I would use an ORM tool such as Hibernate. This way you can have a library that handles all of your SQL and persistence needs on it’s own, and you don’t have to worry about dealing with a pseudo-table like structure.

I find working with strongly-typed domain objects to be far, far easier and quicker to develop (and test) than working with SQL, resultsets, etc.