First, sorry for the late reply - I'm just too choked right now :=)
I agree on revisiting it, it's very important too feel good about it and not
forcing anything.
Perhaps now we have a better understanding as well :=)
/Niklas
2009-04-05 Rickard Öberg wrote:
Niklas Uhrberg wrote:
>> Why is the qualified relation not an entity?
>> It has no identity, there is simply no need to track one and the same
>> association, it suffices to know what data is attached to the unique
>> association between a particular instance of A to a particular instance
>> of B.
>>
>> The qualifier construct is supposed to make it explicit that it is just
>> some data being unique to an association between entities.
>>
>> I think that a good api for this would enhance the understandability of
>> the model.
>
>Thanks for the excellent summary. Yeah, that makes it clear that doing
>Qualifiers as Entities was very wrong. It really is more like value-data
>that is attached to the specific association. Not sure how to handle
>that right now. Let's revisit this when the current refactoring is done.
>
>/Rickard
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