In this arcticle you'll find out two ways about how GWT-application could access the database on the server side using iBATIS. This materials will be useful for developers who create GWT-applications such as database front-ends.

Why iBATIS?

Frequently developers have task to create useful and functional user interface applications to manipulate data (we refered this in post about our solution of  this problev -  GWT-PF). GWT is perfectly applicable for these tasks as good instrument for creating interface and client-server communications. For this purposes GWT has own RPC-interface to remote procedure call or possibility of using JSON-structures to exchange data with server.

But when you have to interact with database on the server-side appears the question about how to unify and automate this process...