Re: Mixing OO and DB

From: topmind <topmind_at_technologist.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 22:17:28 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <b8d46cb7-af7c-4a21-93ca-6cb6b2c1ff3f_at_i12g2000prf.googlegroups.com>


On Feb 28, 7:27 pm, Patrick May <p..._at_spe.com> wrote:
> Eric <e..._at_deptj.demon.co.uk> writes:
> > On 2008-02-28, Patrick May <p..._at_spe.com> wrote:
> >> ... traversal is done by object
> >> reference rather than by some subset of object state
>
> > So whatever you think you are saying your subconscious is
> > following pointers.
>
> I tried to be very clear with what I was saying. In the large OO
> systems that I've worked on, there was no problem with proliferation
> of finder methods in practice. Typically, once a core set of objects
> have been instantiated, access to related objects is via reference
> rather than repeated, explicit database access.

Usually one can reference the same result set from a query over and over again without re-querying also if need be. However, I don't see a need for that very often.

[snip]

> Regards,
>
> Patrick
>
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-T- Received on Fri Feb 29 2008 - 07:17:28 CET

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