[TYPO3-ect] ORM for lib/div

[Alexey Boriskin]

Hello.

As mentioned in some posts in this list, there is a need in an ORM tool 
for lib/div.

Some comparison was done at [1], but this page was not changed for a 
half year.
For now, we have some options:
1) use TCAObjects of WEC [2]
2) use some widely used PHP ORM [3]. Most popular ORMs are:
   a) Propel [4]
   b) EZPDO [5]
   c) Doctrine [6]
3) other, self-made tool.

I looked at TCAObjects, Propel, EZPDO and Doctrine.
TCAObjects was not updated for a long time. It is small and not very 
powerful. I used it in one of my projects and had to change some code. 
It is still "raw".
EZPDO is similar to Hibernate and use syntax like @orm int(64).
Propel generates classes from data scheme XML.
Doctrine generates classes from existing database or another source 
(Propel's XML is supported). Also there is a possibility to write our 
own import class for generating classes from TCA. (But it's also complex 
task cause TCA structure is complex).

Personally, I would prefer Doctrine. But it may be too overhead: 
Doctrine contains 277 files now, which total size is 1.5 MB.

Also, I am curious about Robert Lemke's decision about ORM for 5.0.

Regards, Alexey.

[1]http://wiki.typo3.org/index.php/Object_Persistence_Framework
[2]http://svn.webempoweredchurch.org/misc/browser/trunk/tcaobj
[3]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_object-relational_mapping_software#PHP
[4]http://propel.phpdb.org/
[5]http://ezpdo.net/
[6]http://www.phpdoctrine.org/