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

From: Mikito Harakiri <mikharakiri_nospaum_at_yahoo.com>
Date: 31 May 2006 10:46:58 -0700
Message-ID: <1149097618.248244.88260_at_i39g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>


Joe Van Dyk wrote:
> Mikito Harakiri wrote:
> > Robert Martin wrote:
> >
> >>Application developers get into trouble when they DONT treat the
> >>database as a detail.
> >
> >
> > Robert, you claim 35 years of application programming experience. Have
> > you ever come across a performance problem when database is accessed
> > via API
> >
> > getItemIdList
> > getItemDetail
> >
> > so that a single jsp page issued a hundred SQL statements instead of a
> > single one? Come on, this one is so common that it surfaces on every
> > performance meeting.
>
> This problem is easily solved via caching.

Yep.

User: "I updated the stupid item, why didn't it refresh on the damn screen?"
Programmer: "Fixing this problem requires to make the cache as sophisticated as DBMS. Not feasible in the current release". Received on Wed May 31 2006 - 19:46:58 CEST

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