Re: Clean Object Class Design -- What is it?

David Cressey wrote in message ...
>> Even better case for trying to understand how a completely OO
>> based application would be designed. Lee is making the point
>> about the many needs for users to get at the data. How is this
>> accomplished in OO only systems?
>
>I think this is close to the root of the matter. Essentially, what the
>pure OO people are saying, if I can put words in their mouth, is that
>hiding the data from the users is a service. If they have full access to
>the objects, and if the object model covers the subject matter, then why
>should they need access to the data, except for data made available to
 them
>by the objects that they can access.
>
>I'm skeptical of the above claim, but not completely closed to it.

The real question is: What constitutes full access to objects? How does one achieve this?

The relational model provides a simple interface to all of the objects in the database. It also provides a theory based interface to all of the objects in the database. Received on Sat Aug 04 2001 - 14:04:31 CDT