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

Robert Martin wrote:
> On 2006-06-01 07:58:07 -0400, "Tony Andrews" <andrewst_at_onetel.com> said:
>
> > This is a lot different from RCM's stance (as I understand it), which
> > is that even the developer writing the database code - the "guts" of
> > the data processing - shouldn't need to know anything about the DBMS.
> > I don't agree with this.
>
> My stance is that there should be a dividing line in the application.
> On the right of that dividing line is the code that knows about SQL and
> the Schema. On the left is code that knows nothing of SQL and sees the
> schema through an abstract vision.

The schema *is* an abstract vision.

Marshall Received on Tue Jun 20 2006 - 13:58:25 CDT