Re: The wisdom of the object mentors (Was: Searching OO Associations with RDBMS Persistence Models)

Alfredo Novoa wrote:
> Robert Martin wrote:
> >No, a DBMS is a bucket of bits with some low level rules to manage
> >those bits. An OO application provides the beavior that the customer
> >wants to see. We can completely eliminate the DBMS and replace it with
> >another of an entirely different form (non Relational for example) and
> >still have all the business behavior we need.
>
> >The people who sell databases have sold you, and the industry, a
> >misconception: that the database is the heart of the system. This is
> >flawed. The heart of the system is the application code. The database
> >is a detail to be decided at the last possible moment and kept in a
> >position so flexible that it can be swapped out for another at a whim.
>
> If the mentors are like this, I don't want to imagine the rest.

Considering the use of so many button-pushingly ludicrous statements such as "a DBMS is a bucket of bits" and "swapped out for another at a whim", do you not think perhaps Mr Martin was teasing (or goading) you? Received on Tue May 30 2006 - 14:33:03 CEST