Re: [Newbies] Concrete classes... multiple users

2007-10-27 Thread John Almberg
Hi Ron, In a nutshell, I have an application that needs to read Items from a database. I recently discovered that in Smalltalk classes are real objects. This struck me as cool, so when I was deciding how to instantiate these Items, I thought, hey I'll use the class object as a factory

RE: [Newbies] Concrete classes... multiple users

2007-10-27 Thread Ron Teitelbaum
Hi John, Good luck with your project. By the way if you haven't already heard about it you might want to look at Glorp. Glorp is an object to RDBMS mapping system for Smalltalk (written in VW but ported to Squeak). It is possible that it is more complicated then you need but you may find that

RE: [Newbies] Concrete classes... multiple users

2007-10-26 Thread Ron Teitelbaum
Hi John, I read your question, but had some trouble trying to understand what you did or why you are having trouble now that you have to connect to multiple databases. You say that you have only one Item class. That's good because your domain classes shouldn't be affected by your backend