Re: Clean Object Class Design -- What is it?

Bob Badour wrote:
> >Who is forcing the user to learn what?
>
> In the case of your product, it forces every user to learn Java
> with all of its needless complexity and low-level capabilities.

You are posting to Java newsgroups here, aren't you? Our users are programming in Java and we provide them with a database. This is our focus, our "niche" as you may call it. Java is mainstream.

> Think about it. If you have one construct, the relation. Your
> optimizer must deal with:

[bag, set, hash, array and permutation examples snipped]

No, our engine internally has a high level abstraction layer to convert all Collection classes to arrays. The query optimizer is written once for arrays and works for all array and Collection classes.

Our translation mechanism is even documented with sourcecode that is available with the download. Users can use it, to create their own translators, if they want to optimize storage space or use special constructors.

Kind regards,
Carl

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Carl Rosenberger
db4o - database for objects - http://www.db4o.com