This was more response than I actually thought I my post would get
(first time posting to newsgroups) :-).
I do apologise if my post falls outside the scope of this group as I
might have been looking for a more pragmatic discussion, although the
theory interests me.
My first objective is to create something that fits within the
framework of existing programming languages, making it as easy as
possible for programmers to use. As I see it, there is enough in
common between C++, Java and C# for example to be able to create a
common object model.
Seeing from some posts I might have used the term "object model"
wrongly, but I have defined it as the set of classes used by one
application. I am not looking to create a "data warehouse" style
database that would be used by a wide range of applications, but
rather a database / distribution system that is tightly linked with
one or just a few applications. The reasoning being that there are a
lot of applications that need to store complex data that doesn't have
much meaning outside the application itself. From experience, I have
seen so many applications that use a relation database just because
that happens to be the only or the easiest available choice.
