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

From: Bruno Desthuilliers <bdesth.quelquechose_at_free.quelquepart.fr>
Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 04:35:16 +0200
Message-ID: <447cd16c$0$24912$626a54ce_at_news.free.fr>


Alfredo Novoa a écrit :
> Robert Martin wrote:
>
(snip)
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>>>>The objects in the OO program should MANIPULATE the
>>>>data structures from the RDB.

>
>>>Very wrong. The OO program should TRANSFORM the user input in orders
>>>for the DBMS. 

>

>>>The OO program is an interface between the users and the DBMS. A >>>friendly substitute for the DBMS console.

Alfredo, in case you wouldn't know this, there are a lot of applications that have *nothing* to do with a RDBMS.

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> If the mentors are like this, I don't want to imagine the rest.
>

The "rest" just do it's job: writing applications - with a RDBMS when it's the right tool, without when it's not. Thank you, and good night. Received on Wed May 31 2006 - 04:35:16 CEST

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