Re: data, jsp and jsp tag problem, best practice needed

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Lew <lew@nowhere.com>

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Thu, 05 Oct 2006 00:19:37 -0400

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Mark Space wrote:

Precompile the SELECT, stuff it away in a class, and then you can just
call a class method when you need it. Easy to change later if ya gotta.

Simon Brooke wrote:

Aesthetics. I prefer to keep all the database code in one place - in the
SQL script file(s) - and not embed complex SQL in Java. So if I'm going to
join two tables I do that either as a view or else in a configuration file
that's read by the application, rather than hard-code the SQL string.

Rrr?

First of all, "complex" SQL?

Second, I find moving the SQL string out to a configuration (or other such)
file to be overkill. Engineering concerns might trump aesthetics. Or they
might coincide; some find simplicity and elegance to be very aesthetic. Form
follows function. Better engineered equals prettier.

SQL is as much part of the logic of the app as the Java constructs also
"hard-coded" into the source, e.g., the data structure that will hold the
result of the query. Let's call that structure PersonGroupInfo for the cited
example. The database structure, the SQL query and the Java structure will
exist in tandem perforce. (Because they all express the underlying model.)

A standard way to isolate SQL is to encapsulate it in a data-access object
(DAO).

For our example, declare a SQL string in the DAO class:

"SELECT p.*, g.id AS group_id, g.name AS group_name
FROM people p INNER JOIN ln_people_group l ON l.person = p.id
INNER JOIN group g ON l.group = g.id"

Sure, make this a static final String, and use it in a PreparedStatement
within a method of the DAO.

Now have your business logic put in a call to the DAO:

List <PersonGroupInfo> pgInfo = dao.listPersonGroupInfo(); // encapsulated!

Voil?! Your business logic is plenty isolated from the details of database
access without bothering with extra text files.

- Lew

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