On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 10:01 AM, Franklin, Matthew B. <[email protected]>wrote:
> I have been working on splitting the models in the branch according to the > strategy on the wiki and wanted to highlight an undiscussed consequence. > In the case I am currently working, eliminating the tight coupling between > objects & person/user, if we switch to using getUser/PersonId() on things > like PageUser, Widgets, etc we will end up with a database that does not > have referential integrity to the person table. This same pattern will > propagate throughout all "verticals". If we explicitly define a > constraint in the JPA layer, it will break the ability to use different > persistence strategies for verticals and at the database layer, we are > defining > +1 > > Everyone OK with the consequences and if not, is there an alternative that > you can identify? > > -Matt > >
