Re: ORM or JDBC?
On 03/29/2011 12:53 AM, Michal Kleczek wrote:
Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
In message<imq7cm$b2r$1@news.onet.pl>, Michal Kleczek wrote:
Now imagine schema S desribes an accounting database and library C -
classes implementing neural network computations.
Then imagine library C is a GUI widget library.
You mean C is both a library of GUI widgets and a library implementing
application logic?
I would not do things that way.
What supporters of JPA say instead is that it is a "good practice" to
create another class model B (so called "business model") then use ORM to
"map" the database schema to class model B and then write more code to
"map" class model B to class model C. The problem is that there is no
application specific "business logic" I could put into B since all of it
is already implemented in C.
If C is the GUI, then there is a case for putting the application logic
into a lower layer B.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman
He's used that fallacy before, but this wasn't one of those times.
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