Re: OODB
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 13:02:19 GMT
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"Scotty" <invallid_at_invalid.spam> wrote in message
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> Do they exist or are they a figment of a college lecturers
> imagination?
Lots exist and are absolutely wonderful things to study. You should avoid them in the real world, however, if the following things are important to you:
1 data integrity
2 ad-hoc querying with SQL
3 data-extraction using third party reporting tools that rely heavily on
2 above (E.g. MS-Word)
4 data is manipulated using multiple applications
They are, however, a programmer's dream come true, and can be used to produce prototypes very quickly where users aren't important. My own particular favourite for this sort of prototyping is the ZODB included with the open source Zope (http://www.zope.org) - a very handy web application development tool. Received on Mon Nov 25 2002 - 14:02:19 CET