Re: [Q]How to minimize damage done by Java

Thomas Koschate <koschate_at_bigfoot.com> wrote in message news:MPG.186e4f76ea3040ea989683_at_news1.sympatico.ca...

> This isn't a practice that's limited to Java programmers. I've seen it
> done in Smalltalk and other languages, too. I would suggest that it's
> more indicative of a programmer that's never worked with a really large
> data set, or had to deal with a database that lives at the other end of
> a slow data connection. Almost inevitably, it's a programmer that's
> never worked outside of the PC environment, because programmers with a
> main or mid-frame environment have had that nonsense pounded out of
> them early in their careers!

All these middle-ware technologies seem to have been invented and picked up by people who do not understand the first thing about the ideas and capabilities of modern relation database management systems. However the main problem is that the management often do not care about finding optimal solutions to business and technical problems at all. They need to do something flashy, get their bonuses and move on. So the only way to "minimize the damage" is to play some part in this game. The original message sums up the technical side of things but the nature of the problem and solution to it are not technical. Received on Sat Dec 21 2002 - 09:54:49 CST