[DISCUSSION] Object Relational Mapping (ORM) for different programming languages

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

On 11/10/07 1:55 AM, "Thorsten Hohage" <thohage at objectmanufactur.com> wrote:

Hi Thorsten,

>> And the main question. Above CodeStyle or XML ways define what?
>>     Table + its link to some other child table?
>> 
>> Or this is only description of LINK ?
> 
> No, it's not the description of a LINK, it's the "definition". Based
> on this definition the framework recognized that when a Value like
> "objectValues.MyValue" is requested, the "objectValues" adresses a
> linked table.
> 
> Now, with the given parameter and a lot of logic the framework loads
> the data or in most cases creates a fault, can add it on object level
> to the parent, ... and many more things. In some cases the parent
> object knows about the childs he needs to load immedeately and create
> faults of all the linked objects.
> 
> Furthermore the instantiated "Link"-object have a lot of methods,
> properties, ...

So still sounds like LINK to related table.

Simple example of MM link between 2 objects of real world.

    Person  Has  Phone
        M          M

How this will looks in your framework?

May be just make a WIKI page as part of your docs? :-)

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Ruslan Zasukhin
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Paradigma Software, Inc

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