FacadeAPI appears deprecated

[heatherita]

As I work through the upgrade from flowlogix 2.3.-> 4.0.7 I see thatcom.flowlogix.jeedao.FacadeAPI` appears to be deprecated. Is this true? We rely heavily on this Interface.

[lprimak]

FacadeAPI has been replaced by DaoHelper class.
This is to decouple EJBs from base classes and to use delegation vs. inheritance (better design)
Functionality is mostly the same

See https://github.com/flowlogix/flowlogix/blob/main/jakarta-ee/flowlogix-jee/src/test/java/com/flowlogix/jeedao/FacadeTest.java for an example

[heatherita]

ok so no more interface?

OLD:

public interface MyTestFacadeLocal extends FacadeAPI<MyTest, Long>

public class MyTestFacade extends AbstractFacade<MyTest, Long> implements MyTestFacadeLocal

NEW:

My "Facade" class just uses a DaoHelper member now, as MyControl does below?

public class MyTestFacade {
    private final EntityManager em = mock(EntityManager.class, RETURNS_DEEP_STUBS);
    class MyControl {
        @Delegate
        final DaoHelper<Integer, Long> facade = DaoHelper.<Integer, Long>builder()
                .entityClass(Integer.class)
                .entityManagerSupplier(() -> em)
                .build();

What should I do about xa and non-xa EntityManager? What replaces this?

@Override
    protected EntityManager getEntityManager()
    {
        return isXA()? emXA : _em;
    }

I appreciate your responses thus far, but I need some guidance on how to port my old DAO architecture, comprised of "Local" interfaces that were implemented by classes that extend AbstractFacade, to this new architecture or I may have to move away from Flowlogix to something more thoroughly documented. I have to meet a deadline.

[lprimak]

I would create my own Facade API (copy it from the old version) and use @Delegate DaoHelper... in your own AbstractFacade
that you can write. Those two are no longer in scope of the library. I have removed all BAW-specific stuff from it.

I'm sorry but I cannot give out free support. You have more than enough information to make this work.
I will answer any specific questions related directly to the library and it's functionality but I can't help with your project itself, not for free.

When I started, the low-code platforms for the web were not up to par, but, to be honest, I would look at low-code
tool for what you need and implement that. I think those tools are good enough now to get what you need done.