Dec 18 2007
Great plans
In the 2nd year of my study at the HU we learned about J2EE, in particular EJB. Happy with the general idea of never writing another line of SQL, we started doing our school projects with EJB. However it’s true that you don’t write SQL, there is EJB-QL, which looks a darn lot like SQL.
While I like the concept, I wonder if Java is the right language to use. I can’t help thinking about all the layers my poor code has to go through, and how can that ever be fast? Anyway, according to this test, Java is way faster than PHP, which was originally intended for the web (Wikipedia also has a nice comparison about this).
Strangely enough, at that time there was no framework or abstraction layer available for PHP, so I started building one myself. The idea was for it to work like EJB, and the result was satisfactory. Then doom hit me, because I lost all that code 
So now I’m going to start all over again, with a slightly different angle: I am going to write a framework that communicates with the Zend Framework, but with a little extra: the Zend Framework does not provide creation and automatic querying for your objects in the database, and that’s what will be the extra in my framework.