--- Scott Tavares <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: george stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Sunday, December 26, 1999 9:09 PM
> Subject: more changes
>
>
> > As we've discussed, it would be nice to have
> something
> > for retrieving the maps. I'm not gung-ho for
> doing
> > this. It needs some design (Scott didn't give
> this
> > one up), and I'm a coder not a designer. Maybe,
> we
> > can find something on the internet about this.
> Tons
> > of people must be using this meta-data approach.
> >
> well i'm not sure what you mean by "meta-data
> approach". do you mean to use
> the system tables (meta-data) of the RDBMS? if this
> is the case i have to -1
> on this. my reasoning is it will be out of our
> control what each RDBMS
> vendor stores in its systems tables making it
> unpredictable. I would rather
> create our own table schema or XML DTD to store this
> data and create a
> utility application to help maintain the data.
>
Scott, I mean the class map junk. The stuff that maps
class attributes to database columns. So, wouldn't
you call this class metadata?
> yes do this... i know that the use of introspection
> was objected to by some
> on the list. although i'm not totally against it, i
> think the idea of making
> the coding standard be that all PO's need to conform
> to the JavaBean
> standard is still a viable solution.
OK. But how do you make the JavaBean stuff work
without introspection. Maybe, I' just uninformed.
>
> > btw, I added Cursor.java under database. Do we
> need
> > PersistentCursor in api?
> >
>
> the reason that it is in /api is becouse SA's white
> paper states that:
> "...an application programmer only need to know
> about the folloing classes
> to make their object persistent: PersistentObject,
> the PersistentCriteria
> class hierarchy, PersistentTransaction and
> _Cursor_...", thus making up the
> API. so i think it should stay where it is.
OK. But how about if we rename it to Cursor, as in
Scott's paper. Then, I just move Cursor over from
database.
- george
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