I'm new to hibernate. I'm testing and learning how to use it. I want to use it to make three tier desktop applications (Ex: DB: MySQL, AppServer: JBOSS, Client). I couldn't find a GUI components framework to make the client side of the application as a desktop application not as a web application like for example, the Borland db components that works with Borland datasets and manage the changes to apply them in the database. I'm talking about a framework or a set of GUI components (Data sources, table, fields, combos, grids, etc) to manage the changes to/from the lists of objects retrieved, for example,from the session.find method.


Thanks a lot in advance.

Lic. Diego Juiz.

This is not Delphi

Ah sorry, not very helpful :) There is no such thing, once because the model the classical Delphi components employs can not be compared to a real three-tired Java rich-client application, but also because Rich-Client Java is much less used than server-side java at the moment.

I totally agree with you. My intention was to explain my idea with an example a not to compare Delphi with Borland. I know that Java is not Delphi, I'm working now with both languages and I can tell the differences and the advantages of Java. I was just asking if someone know something about that, because I need it and I think that it can be useful to other developers.
My question is, does someone know any framework or set of components to build a Java rich-client for desktop applications, this means not a web application, to manage data changes in lists of objects and automatically propagate the changes to and from hibernate?
My goal is also to keep my server object model in the client; I want to work in the client with the same objects that I work in the server.

Lic. Diego Juiz

Google for 'Java data bound components' and see if you find something like what you are looking for.

I know Oracle about a year ago had a set of databound web components and a supporting framework - it might be OC4J (can't remember the name exactly), or something similar. the might have something similar supplied with JDeveloper?

Maybe you could look there and see if you could adapt their components to use Hibernate under the covers?

Perhaps you may take a look at Raptor. Alpha stage at the moment. http://sourceforge.net/projects/raptor/