Difference between ibatis and mybatis

Question

What is the difference between iBatis and myBatis? Where can i find a perfect example of those ? Please suggest. I went through Google and could not find any links for this question.

Answer 1

MyBatis is a fork from iBATIS, and according to Wikipedia most of iBATIS' developers moved over to MyBatis too. The iBATIS project is currently marked as Inactive, therefore you should go with MyBatis for new projects and only use iBATIS if you're maintaining an existing project which already uses iBATIS.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MyBatis

MyBatis is a fork of iBATIS 3.0 and is maintained by a team that includes the original creators of iBATIS.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBATIS

On May 21, 2010 the development team forked the code creating a new project called MyBatis and making new releases there. As a consequence the Apache iBATIS project became inactive and was moved to the Apache Attic in June 2010.

Answer 2

It is the same thing, a persistence framework! But until June 2010, iBatis was under Apache license and since then, the framework founders decided to move it to Google Code and they renamed it to MyBatis.

The framework is still the same though, it just has a different name now. (of course it should be kept in mind that when time pass, components/features etc, might get updated, so there are more powerful functions added to MyBatis).