What are the available tools, beside the obvious Transfer?

Thanks,
Henry

On Feb 11, 3:51 am, Brian Kotek <[email protected]> wrote:
> Yes, it can get very complicated. That's people choose to use tools that
> have already done all this work for you instead of reinventing the wheel.
>
> On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 2:29 AM, Henry <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > > 2.  If the child object is shared by more than 1 parent, should the
> > > > parent all reference to the same instance of the child object?  If so,
> > > > how?
>
> > > > Possible implementation:
> > > > - Storing a struct of child objects by ID in Application scope?  That
> > > > sounds bizarre and wrong
> > > > - Factory pattern with cache layer??
>
> > > > If not, then the updated child might be overwritten by an old child by
> > > > another parent object. e.g.
> > > > Parent A @ init'ed, has copy of Child1, Child1.name = "ONE"
> > > > Parent B @ init'ed, has another copy of Child1, Child1.name = "ONE"
> > > > Parent A update Child1's name to TWO
> > > > Parent A save (Child1 saved, Child1.name == TWO)
> > > > Parent B save (Child1 saved, Child1.name == ONE)
>
> > > Yes, there should only be one instance of the same concrete object at a
> > > time, or you'll run into a storm of synchronization issues. Which means
> > some
> > > central cache is required to ensure duplicate objects are not created.
>
> > How would I implement that "central cache"?  Factory with cache
> > layer?  How to determine how many objects to cache?  Do I need to
> > implement a stack of Most Recently Used objects in CF? wow, this is
> > really getting complicated.
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