Richard Hosking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This would be easier I presume that trying to do it all in SQL. However, > one of the criticisms has been that the middleware is too complicated.
The problem is complicated, so the solution is bound to be. But the idea is to have all the application-specific compilcated bits in one place, using one technology/programming language, to give them and a the humans that create them a better chnace of getting everything synchronised and matched up. Tim C [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > ? a smart python data object with a dumb sql skeleton > > *On Wed Dec 28 12:40 , Richard Hosking sent: > > * > > The gurus seem to be of the opinion that it is better to have > smart data > objects and dumb code to manipulate them. > > R > > Tim Churches wrote: > > > > >>gnumed was originally concieved as "smart-server, dumb-client" > >>model, with backend triggers doing all kinds of high-level > stuff, like > >>interactions checking. > >> > >> > > > >I am now convinced that this is arse-about, putting the back-end cart > >before the horse, as it were. Better to put all the smarts in one > layer, > >the middleware, and use database back-ends in a dumb fashion, and > >thin-client Web interfaces (so the interface smarts are very closely > >integrated with the business logic in teh same set of classes in the > >middleware layer, which all runs on the server). > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Gpcg_talk mailing list > [email protected] > <javascript:top.opencompose('[email protected]','','','')> > http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk > > <parse.pl?redirect=http%3A%2F%2Fozdocit.org%2Fcgi-bin%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Fgpcg_talk> > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >Gpcg_talk mailing list >[email protected] >http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk > > _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
