As you may know the project team behind iBatis moved to a new home outside Apache and named the new project MyBatis. I have wanted to create a camel-mybatis component for some time. Now that the Camel in Action book is done, I have more spare time to work on some fun stuff.
So in Camel 2.7 we have added a new camel-mybatis component which works similar to the existing camel-ibatis component. This should allow you to more easily migrate off the iBatis to the MyBatis.
You may ask why I am in favor of iBatis/MyBatis. Well one of the reason its simple and it does exactly what it's told to do. And it gives you, the end user, full power. I have seen to many projects picking an ORM such as Hibernate / JPA for any database access, and then crumple into misery.
Especially in integration scenarios where you have use-cases to maintain data in an existing scheme, then using plain SQL (with Spring SimpleJdbcTemplate) is a good solution. Even a stored procedure may remedy some use-cases where a complex query has to be executed fast and being optimized on the target database. If there is a bit more database work in need then using MyBatis is a great SQL mapper which still gives you the full power of the SQL, but makes it dead easy to map ResultSet to/from Java objects.
At Javalobby there was a discussion about people using plain JDBC. If you take a look at some of the comments, then not everybody is in favor of ORMs. I strongly suggest to think twice when using an ORM.
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