Preface

In my career as a software developer, I have worked in many diverse environments. Within a single company, software will often be developed in many different ways. When you consider the various challenges, people, and tools that make up a developer’s day-to-day world, you quickly realize just how diverse that world is. I never know what surprising challenges the next consulting project will bring, so I always keep a variety of tools in my toolbox. For a few years, iBATIS was just a little chunk of code that saved me some time when I would normally be handcoding JDBC.

So how did iBATIS go from being a tool in my toolbox to an Apache project used by thousands? I had never intended to make iBATIS a full-blown open source project. The source was out there, but I hadn’t marketed it or actively shared it with anyone. Enter JPetStore.