Re: Mixing OO and DB

From: Robert Martin <unclebob_at_objectmentor.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 02:03:02 -0600
Message-ID: <2008030602030223865-unclebob_at_objectmentorcom>

On 2008-03-04 17:06:57 -0600, topmind <topmind_at_technologist.com> said:

>
>
> Robert Martin wrote:

>> What you are missing is that there is
>> no restriction that other objects use the data from the employee_table.
>> So while a class certainly defines the methods that can be used to
>> access and manipulate the data within that class, there can be many
>> different classes that use the same data in very different ways.

>
> In other words, each class becomes a little roll-your-own database
> with a very custom interface.

Each small group of classes becomes a little roll-your-own data access and manipulation scheme that is perfectly tuned for it's very specific purpose.

> RDBMS instead factor common collection-
> handling and attribute-management idioms into a central tool.

Granted. Very useful.

> OO does
> not, making it primitive and tedious.

Balderdash. Programmers organize the data they extract from the database into forms that are more convenient for the particular processing they need to do.

> RDBMS are a huge form of reuse of concepts.

Granted.

> OO is shanty-town design versus modern civil planning.

Stupid sloganeering with no substance behind it.

> If
> one learns to leverage those idioms provided by the DB, then the code
> is simpler because it doesn't have to reinvent them.

That sentence is true. It is also true if you replace the phrase "the DB" with the word OO.

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