My first open source project …
Think features of ActiveRecord + Hibernate + a little more – limitations on some data structures. Designed for maximum ease and speed of development for common applications.
The goal:
orm.save( classInstance1 );
// boom! – cohesion creates a table(s) if need be
// record gets saved// look ups by example class
classInstanceExample.setName( “Sparky” );
classInstance2 = orm.load( classInstanceExample );// or by field names and values
Map m = new HashMap();
m.put( “name”, “Sparky” );
classInstance3 = orm.find_by_example( m );
Looking to bring ActiveRecord-like functionality to a Java platform with the added Hibernate style bonus of being able to generate a schema automagically … but even better … on the fly from the class using reflection. Unlike Hibernate – no annotations or schema definitions necessary.
Cohesion is not a clone or port of ActiveRecord or Hibernate but meant to provide similar functionality drawing on the strengths and lessons of each of these very important and powerful projects. At least for a good while, I do not anticipate Cohesion will provide the same performance as more mature products like Hibernate, but it will be easier to code with.
I have preliminary code for doing lists using joins and definitely borrowing some ideas from Hibernate. Barring some pretty big contributions from others, I expect some limitations on more complex data structures at least in any early versions.
SourceForge project:
http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/cohesion
Browse source:
http://cohesion.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/cohesion
This is code I started on last year and decided recently to open source currently under an Apache 2 license. I’m open to some discussion on licenses.
If this project makes it to maturity it could provide a very widely used fundamental building block for a lot of development and improve productivity in a lot of places.
Also a founding member, Matthew Molinyawe will be working on this project with me.
Please do comment/drop me or Matt a line if you wish to contribute.
Eric Tucker 