Appendix. iBATIS.NET Quick Start
Early in this book we stated that iBATIS is a portable concept. It wasn’t long after the release of iBATIS 2.0 that a new group of team members ported iBATIS to the .NET platform. This appendix will give you a quick overview of iBATIS for the .NET platform.
It’s common in open source projects to have half-hearted ports to other platforms that often fizzle out shortly after their inception. Not so with iBATIS.NET.
The iBATIS.NET team has been diligently keeping iBATIS.NET up to date with the Java version, as well as improving the core feature set. iBATIS.NET is under the same project umbrella as iBATIS for Java; we are the same team. This is a significant advantage, because we are in constant communication and the developers for each platform learn from each other every day. There are a lot of advantages to both the Java and .NET platforms that we have been using to help encourage innovation between the two.