Yeah I had looked into several of the ORMs everyone has mentioned, and others I had no idea about. I don't think "use a Framework" was the solution I was looking for though. This gives me a great tool to fix the issue of dealing with object relationships, but it doesn't necessarily tell me how to handle the relationship itself. I am sure I will use an ORM at some point, but I think it would be foolish for me to use a tool that fixes a problem that I don't yet understand. I really want to understand the actual problem that these frameworks solve before I actually start using them to solve that problem. I think Alan response gave me what I was looking for.
If I have 2 Objects, Company (parent, PK) & Employee (Child, FK) each would have a property with the other in it? Company.getEmployees() - Retrieves a collection of employees from the employeeIBO that is stored in the Company Instance. This could be used to create an Employee Object (single instance IBO) for code purposes Employee.getCompany().getName() - Retrieves the Name of the Company that the Employee Belongs to from the company object that is stored in the Employee Instance. I assume this is the way to create those relationships? So when I create an Employee instance, I will also have to create a company instance to store in that Employee instance? The real value with an ORM would be when you have lots of objects with their tangled web of relationships. (ie Address object related to both Employee and Company) On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 10:46 AM, Jared Rypka-Hauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > And don't forget ObjectBreeze by Nic Tunney: > > http://www.nictunney.com/index.cfm?mode=cat&catid=D029AD0A-B7EA-0C18-465CB666C649835D > > Lightweight and "different" it's very generic approach makes dev fast but > ongoing support a little less easy than Transfer or Reactor. > > Laterz, > J > On Oct 1, 2008, at 10:33 AM, John Whish wrote: > > As Yoda would say "There is another"... > http://www.datafaucet.com/ > > 2008/10/1 Tom Chiverton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> >> On Wednesday 01 Oct 2008, Peter Bell wrote: >> > Most ORM's will handle your object relationships so they will load >> > your employees into your company object and so on. Check out Transfer >> > and Hibernate. >> >> Obligatory mention of Reactor, the 'other' ColdFusion ORM :-) > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CFCDev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfcdev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
