Stripes with Stripernate

[Richard Parker]

Hello,

I'm curious if anyone has any experience using Stripes with Stripernate?

My company just started using these technologies and us developers are in the process of getting used to this framework. We're specifically struggling with finding examples of how the Stripernate API works for even the simple stuff.

For example, I'm currently having trouble doing the Stripernate equivilant to "Select x, y FROM table" and displaying this result on a jsp.

Any thoughts or comments about Stripes and Stripernate are welcome.

Thanks,
Richard

[Aaron Porter]

I've got quite a bit of experience using it. (I wrote it.

Stripernate is (mostly) just an easy way to connect Stripes and Hibernate. It provides type converters and formatters so that Stripes can easily manage Hibernate entities.

With regard to your question about queries, generally what you'll do is create a public method that starts with "get" and has no parameters in your Stripes ActionBean. This method will perform the query and return the result as a list. If your method was named "getEmployees" then inside of your JSP you'd use ${actionBean.employees} as the items parameter of a forEach loop.

[Richard Parker]

Well what do you know - the author of Stripernate answered my post!
Sorry my reply to this comes so late...

Yes, my company is using Stripes with Stripernate and Hibernate. I've learned quite a bit from my first post and I must say - my coworkers and I really like Stripernate. For some reason we were having issues getting Hibernate to work properly - it was confusing, but with Stripernate it was really easy.

The only "snafoo" we were having is trying to get a table mapping from a foreign key in one table to a foreign key in another table. Nothing we tried seemed to work, so we just did a straight up query - problem solved. (but I think that's more of a Hibernate thing).

One thing we could have really used though, is more examples. We were all new to Stripes/Stripernate and Hibernate - so for the first few weeks it was all a matter of trial and error.

Another fuzzy area was trying to figure out what was a Hibernate thing and what was a Stripernate thing. I'm still not totally clear on all that - but hey, my application is about to enter "beta" phase and it works like a charm!



Thanks,
Richard

P.S. If you need any help or testing done for future versions or products - I would be more that happy to lend a hand if you need it.