First two posts of the Smooks Persistence blog series
One of the major new features in Smooks v1.2 will be the new Persistence Cartridge. This cartridge enables the use of several entity persistence frameworks from within Smooks, currently targeting Hibernate, Ibatis and any JPA compatible framework. It also allows you to use your own Data Access Objects (DAOs).
This cartridge is great for those cases where you already have your data access layer and want to use its power from within Smooks. It also allows you to reuse these persistence resources on any format of data, not just XML e.g. EDI, CSV, JSON etc.
I am doing a series of blog posts on it on the Smooks blog. A couple of weeks ago I published the first post called "Smooks Persistence part 1: The Introduction" and today I published the second post called "Smooks Persistence part 2: How to use Hibernate/JPA".
I hope you find them interesting. I would love to hear your feedback.