Yes, I thought so. The terms are have very similar meanings and it's kind of ambiguous when talking about this. Matthew Small Web Developer American City Business Journals 704-973-1045 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-----Original Message----- From: Tanguy Rademakers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 3:18 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: DAOs, objects, structs, or strings >Sorry, maybe our terms are different? My Data Access Object (DAO) that >works with the DB returns only a query object. My DataGateway (DG) >creates the object from the query and returns it, or passes it to the >DAO in primitives. Then I have the Data Object itself. Three parts to >this equation for me. The DAO does not have knowledge of the objects >because it deals only in database terms. The DG is the >translator/mapper from table to object. Our terms are, in fact, almost exactly opposite ;) For me, a gateway deals in queries and a DAO deals in objects. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:220754 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
