Path: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu!spool.maxwell.syr.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!sn-xt-sjc-15!sn-xt-sjc-08!sn-post-sjc-01!supernews.com!news.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: Robert Martin Newsgroups: comp.object,comp.databases.theory Subject: Re: The wisdom of the object mentors (Was: Searching OO Associations with RDBMS Persistence Models) Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 14:50:48 -0400 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: <2006062014504819336-unclebob@objectmentorcom> References: <1148940908.338233.159400@j73g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1148992382.953619.29870@u72g2000cwu.googlegroups.com> <2006053108462738165-unclebob@objectmentorcom> <1149084873.914054.188030@i39g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1149093823.907589.226530@c74g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> <1149154287.668637.302210@u72g2000cwu.googlegroups.com> <1149159361.846295.4330@g10g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> <2006061315292642612-unclebob@objectmentorcom> <1150206757.698134.88410@f6g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Unison/1.7.5 X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Lines: 19 Xref: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu comp.object:140658 comp.databases.theory:41921 On 2006-06-13 09:52:37 -0400, "erk" said: > I don't think that's possible, since the power of a relational (or even > SQL) DBMS is in the data definition, constraints, and manipulation it > allows. Most database-aware applications end up duplicating at least > part of all that in code. It's certainly possible since all we are talking about is hiding the facilities behind and abstract interface. That abstraction need not remove any of the power or capability. -- Robert C. Martin (Uncle Bob)  | email: unclebob@objectmentor.com Object Mentor Inc.            | blog:  www.butunclebob.com The Agile Transition Experts  | web:   www.objectmentor.com 800-338-6716                  |