The more you build into it the more overhead you create. Not all businesses
would need the object you are talking about, as well as other objects you
may think of. The beauty of the current system is that you are not
encumbered by unnecessary overhead and how somebody else thinks a process
should work. It's bad enough you have to deal with that on PC apps. If you
have a need for this then build it, but don't encumber the rest of us with
something we may not need.
Jerry
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Jordan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 04, 2006 4:02 PM
Subject: RE: [U2] Using DICT items in basic program
This concept is something that the PICK world needs to look at.
Intersystems Cache deals with Data Objects which is a combination of data
and business logic. That data object is written once and used everywhere
from a query, from in a program, from a web services, from .Net, java,
etc.
This appears to work quite efficiently in Cache although I have not had
the
chance to play with it.
I am sure that I am not the only developer out there who has explored this
concept in PICK and thought it would be highly effective if it could be
done
efficiently. Consider Total Price = Qty * Unit Price. This would be
duplicated in an application from an Enqlish statement to a data entry
program, to report programs to a web client, etc. Every one duplicating
the
reading of Qty and Unit price from the database and writing the
calculation
for each application. Consider now we need to add tax or a customer
discount, that logic would need to be duplicated through every program,
wouldn't it be nice if we just had to change it in one place. Maybe this
is
a future development direction for the IBM folks to consider.
Regards
David Jordan
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