"Nothing can stop me now..."

[alexr_rwx]

Java webapps make me want to rm -rf the directory and start the project over in a more sensible language. The black-boxitude of other people's lumbering jars pisses me off.

This might just mean that I should rewrite the parts of hibernate that I want and let the rest of it rot in the bitbucket.

Comments

[brainfaucet.livejournal.com]

Yeah! ME TOO!!!.... wait... what?

[neuroticmonk.livejournal.com]

"The problem, dear Brutus lies not in our stars but in ourselves." - Julius Cesear

Hibernate rocks. The problem is that the hibernate.org people have put out way too little documentation, which among other things is to say that they haven't commented their code with javadoc. You really shouldn't need to look at the code per se, but just look at the API. However, it *is* an open source project, so you can just go download the source from CVS if you want. Then there's no black box!

Cheers!

[oniugnip.livejournal.com]

*nods* I have the code, and I see the api...

... but it still takes the thing 45 seconds to start up (when I go "ant install"), and it's really not clear what it's doing with all that time -- ostensibly parsing some XML files or something. It certainly spits a lot of logs. It's just a pain. So I'm rolling my own!

(do you use this thing? Do you know how to make it faster and not suck?)

[(Anonymous)]

Yes, I use it and it doesn't suck. First, you're using ant, which blows completely. Secondly, one of the things that happens is that hibernate checks to make sure that your database and the mapping files are still in sync. Put those together an it takes a few seconds. My builds usually take < 45s though for databases with 50+ tables.