Re: Multi Valued Interface Models?

"JOG" <jog_at_cs.nott.ac.uk> wrote in message news:1139932647.834090.211600_at_o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com...

> Well in my experience of MVC you tend to package and pass an object
> full of information to the view module for displaying. I believe Dawn
> is saying when this data is reconstructed that package has a data
> model. One might disagree with this, but even if one ride's with that
> assumption, I can currently see no theoretical reason that the
> reconstruction cannot be into an RM 1NF format, even if it is
> nonsensical to do so in terms of processing.

> Similarly I could send a map of (person, email) or a vector of person
> objects, each containing email attributes. Exactly the same
> information, the first corresponding to 1NF and the second to non-NF. I
> don't see how any UML specification precludes this.

You are sending a sequence of data because you are going to process it sequentially and the computer memory is an one dimensional array. ;-)

Normal forms are discussed in the context of update anomalies. The data you are going to display is read only ;-) Received on Wed Feb 15 2006 - 09:16:08 CET