On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 09:37, Edmund Lian wrote: > I was reading one of Kuchling's write-ups about ZODB and ZEO last > night (http://www.amk.ca/zodb/zodb-zeo.html), and was wondering why > people use MiddleKit instead of ZODB.
Simplicity, interactivity with an often required RDBMS, and speed. The last time I looked at ZODB (which was well over six months ago), I was horrified by the speed hit you take as compared to an RDBMS solution. Regardless, developers are sometimes not given the option to choose between OODB's and RDBMS'. MiddleKit's Object to Relation mapping is effective and it's simple. It's very much like one of the Java tools that came out of the Enhydra.org project: DODS. Define the classes and their members in a text file and then compile the class files from that definition. It's very slick for starting a project out quickly. I had always wanted to write an Object to Proxy mapping class, agnostic of the data source target. MiddleKit and DODS were close to this, and it made things quite comfortable for me. Alas, I haven't had much time for pet projects, and my current position keeps me away from programming anything heavier than a lightweight shell script. *grin* -- Chad Walstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.wookimus.net/ assert(expired(knowledge)); /* core dump */ ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Webware-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/webware-discuss
