Re: Searching OO Associations with RDBMS Persistence Models

From: Robert Martin <unclebob_at_objectmentor.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 21:13:11 -0400
Message-ID: <2006061921131175249-unclebob_at_objectmentorcom>


On 2006-06-16 16:03:30 -0400, "Aloha Kakuikanu" <aloha.kakuikanu_at_yahoo.com> said:

> Assume network is an [indirected] graph. Then logical connection is a
> path in the graph. There is nothing challenging in modelling graph in
> RDBMS and creating application objects that correspond to paths in a
> graph. Why "object id" is significant in this picture?

Agreed. There is nothing challenging about representing the connection object I described within an RDBMS. However, there was no NEED. Connections were not persistent. They were computational objects whose existence was transient.

Thus, they had no key; and keys were not used to identify them.

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