On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 09:02:48AM -0700, Jon Stevens wrote:
> Lets dump what we have of OPaL from CVS. It causes new users to much
> trouble. It isn't documented and isn't finished and doesn't look like it
> will be any time soon.

+1 - it distracted me for a while and made me think that I shouldn't use
BasePeer because it was to be superceded.

> Lets improve BasePeer to support whatever features that people need. It is
> already pretty complete and is only missing some minor features like
> transactions. I say minor because they can probably be added fairly easily
> with wrapper objects. I'm using it quite heavily on Scarab and it has been
> used on two other projects for Clear Ink. In other words, it is pretty well
> tested, works very nicely, has the auto-generation stuff nearly complete,
> has the IDBroker working, etc.

Indeed. One feature that OPaL promised which would be nice is some
fairly automatic handling of relation tables etc. The appropriate place
for this in the Peer model would be in the auto-generating of business
object classes/peer classes that Dave is working on. 

How is that going Dave?

Sean

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Sean Legassick
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