DataDeveloper.Net
Posted in data access on Apr 16th, 2008
I found this portal useful to .Net programmers dealing with Data Access.
Articles, tutorials, resources and more.
Monthly Archive for April, 2008
They call this a benchmark
Posted in data access on Apr 16th, 2008
Seen on the ADO.Net blog, this article about performance comparison of the Entity Framework.
It complements this one and this other one. Even if we don’t learn a lot about performance comparison, it brings some interesting information about the Entity Framework.
12 things about REST and WOA
Posted in data access on Apr 16th, 2008
This blog entry from Dion Hichcliffe introduces the following diagram:
(BTW: this guy produces tons of excellent drawings)
Interesting to see that in the Service-oriented Era the relative position of the Data block is not clear.
In the Web-oriented Era, the Data block explodes into a constellation of inter-connected “resources”, which we can see as Data Services, can’t we? So [...]
Ebean by Avaje
Posted in data access on Apr 15th, 2008
Reading TheServerSide I’ve discovered yet another ORM, Ebean by Avaje.
The main positioning point is that they avoid using management context (like JPA EntityManager or JDO PersistenceManager). The product take inspiration from JPA (the mapping annotations, for instance), even if the author details a lot of problems with JPA.
The persistence layer has been specifically designed for [...]
The software design tree
Posted in data access on Apr 15th, 2008
Not directly related to Data Access but I knew this funny picture since a long time, and I’ve found it again yesterday, on Gigaspaces blogs. It truly represents how software is built. And also why developing a successful project is still an Art.
Google’s App Engine
Posted in data access on Apr 9th, 2008
Google has just released, App Engine, yet another framework / environment for development and deployment (hosting) of Web applications. It seems it is targeting Amazon’s EC2+SimpleDB offer. See reactions here on TSS and here on InfoQ.
This REST-based web app framework is built upon Python and claims to be designed for easy (transparent) scalability. Like Amazon’s solution, the system comes with [...]