Steve So what we need is OO RAD? Where you define classes and they 'instantly' appear on your palette (and are dynamically updated) And a O-R framework is part of the language?
The problem has been of course that the Table Row = Business Object is a 95% accurate solution and so the Delphi IDE has basically delivered in 95% of situations That other 5% is a bastard though Just a thought Neven > Yea, thanks Conor, > > Sure, in RAD, as it is in any Delphi project, you can certainly get > away with simply programming the event handlers in the components > (depending on the application). That should not preclude being able to > create, for example, an Application Object that handles all your > globals like the logged in user, or the company name and other details > needed at times (e.g.; lbCompany.Caption := oApp.CompanyName) - where > perhaps the company name is extracted from the database etc. In this > example, oApp knows how to extract the company name, and perhaps even > format it for display. > > RAD does not mean ShiteProgramming, or NoThoughtProgramming. Its hard > to find a definitive definition (?) for RAD and a quick search shows > various descriptions from the tool itself (Delphi or VB) to the whole > spectrum of Agile methodologies. > > However, I do disagree with the assertion that RAD does not lend > itself to larger apps (or did you mean "Rapid Prototyping"). In fact > RAD is an excellent development environment for developing even > enterprise level applications. Some years ago I had the pleasure of > working in a team of between 3-5 developers where we used a RAD > approach (using Delphi) in an iterative and incremental development > methodology to produce a very large scale corporate application and > can confirm the approach as excellent and the development far > outperforms a team up to 10 times larger using Java/J2EE in a refined > waterfall approach for a similar sized project. > > Steve > > On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 8:27 AM, Conor Boyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > Probably because I don't put the acronym RAD and the word > "programming" together as you have done. > > From my POV, RAD is generally taken to mean what the acronym > stands for, Rapid Application Development; i.e. drop some > components on to a form, wire up a few event handlers, voila. > > Doesn't mean I don't "do" OOP in event handlers and the little > amount of code that is required in such an app, but IMHO you're > comparing apples with oranges. > > RAD does not lend itself to larger apps which are intended to be > easily maintainable and intended to be worked on by a team of > developers. > > Cheers, > > C. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] *On Behalf Of *Steve Peacocke > *Sent:* Wednesday, 30 July 2008 8:13 a.m. > *To:* NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List > *Subject:* Re: [DUG] OO Programming > > Just an interesting observation - why do people think that RAD > programming excludes OOP programming? > > RAD is a methodology, OOP is a programming style. > > Steve > http://stevepeacocke.blogspot.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list > Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz <mailto:delphi@delphi.org.nz> > Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi > Unsubscribe: send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with Subject: unsubscribe > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list > Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz > Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi > Unsubscribe: send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe _______________________________________________ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe
