On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 10:09 AM, Rickard Öberg <[email protected]> wrote:
> Is there any particular reason you're not doing the obvious and put a > back-pointer Association on the N-side? Three reasons; 1. In one case, the model becomes ugly since the referenced entity doesn't need to know the referer, and I have always had the belief that Qi4j's primary purpose is so we can stay close to the desired model and not need to leak these kind of details. 2. Another case; It is actually many-to-many already. So although the "right-side" (downstream) has magnitude less references back, the additional complexity becomes significant. 3. A single hash lookup on a known field can be incredibly much faster than the generic Indexing/Query engines. Almost all query needs I have at this stage goes away with this feature. Cheers -- Niclas Hedhman, Software Developer http://www.qi4j.org - New Energy for Java I live here; http://tinyurl.com/2qq9er I work here; http://tinyurl.com/2ymelc I relax here; http://tinyurl.com/2cgsug _______________________________________________ qi4j-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ops4j.org/mailman/listinfo/qi4j-dev
