In defense of the fine young folks there at Macromedia, how they store their
content object data is up to them and shouldn't effect how we code it. After
all, the COAPI is a layer of abstraction above the data. Some might call it
the business logic. The goal should be to write your code at business logic
level and let the people that write the business logic (MM) worry about the
data level. Code that relies heavily on retrieving content through queries
to the database directly is asking for trouble. Granted, it's unavoidable in
some situations, but a more mature API should resolve that.
Ed McLaughlin
SVMedia
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Marc Schipperheyn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>>Sent: Friday, July 27, 2001 6:23 AM
>>To: Spectra-Talk
>>Subject: Re: WDDX and Spectra - divorce :-)
>>
>>
>>I think backward compatibility has never stood high in the
>>minds of Allaire
>>and now Macromedia. Consider all the problems we've had with
>>locking between
>>CF 4 and 4.5.
>>
>>I think it's pretty weak to make a structural design decision
>>that becomes
>>the basis for everybody's programming work and then just
>>change it. Even
>>though I applaud more relational elements in the Spectra Core (Goodbye
>>Verity and good riddance!) I also believe that design
>>decisions should be
>>made to last. We're not jojo's here. I also would like to point out to
>>Macromedia as an American company that in Europe
>>multilinguality is a key
>>concern. XML is still the best way to achieve this. *If*
>>there's going to be
>>a structural change in the way the COAPI is stored I hope the
>>strenghts of
>>XML are going to properly mixed in. A strictly relational
>>framework for
>>multilingual applications sounds like a nightmare, although possible.
>>
>>Kind regards,
>>
>>Marc Schipperheyn
>><theFactor.e>
>>
>>Premium Partner for Macromedia
>>
>>The future is technological, but it will not be a world of gray steel
>>
>>
>>
>>
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