>Sorry I meant CursorAdapter. It's one of the most awkward abstraction APIs I've ever seen for doing data access :-) The functionality it provides is decent but the way code has to interact with it is ugly at best IMHO. I never used it beyond playing with it for that reason.
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>To me the straight forward approach of SQL Passthrough is simply more transparent and allows you full control over the entire data access process...

I take cursoradapter to be an eventhook on SPT. Whatever you do with your alias (requery, update), some events in the CA will fire, and you'll have a chance to either leave them on automatic or intervene. Once it's tamed, it is very useful and can do a lot for you. It's the taming that takes some time and hair pulling.

Now that I'm using one (tamed CA written by someone else who did the groundwork for me :), I'm happy with it. It's like "see ma, no hands!". And I still have the same level of control as with SPT, and in some aspects even better.