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

From: Marshall <marshall.spight_at_gmail.com>
Date: 4 Jun 2006 16:14:36 -0700
Message-ID: <1149462876.840255.78490@i39g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>

Phlip wrote:
> Marshall wrote:
>
> > The thing is that every time you narrow the interface, you reduce the
> > amount of the dbms's power that is available to the rest of the
> > application, instead forcing the app into less well suited avenues,
> > merely because they are pre-existing, or because they are
> > convenient to the ORM layer.
>
> You narrow the interface to what the application needs. When it needs more,
> you widen a little.

So every time you need to do any query, you just mechanically wrap it in a method? Then the use of these wrapper methods is okay anywhere in the application that needs to make them?

That at least would not be cutting the application off from any dbms capability.

Marshall Received on Sun Jun 04 2006 - 18:14:36 CDT