ORM is a beautiful thing. We are using ORM extensively on a large
financial application and it works absolute wonders. It has made many
non trivial tasks, especially those that involving very complex objects
that span many tables, very manageable. I was not a believer at first,
I thought it was complex and unpredictable. I wasn't sure what I was
going to get back from it at any given time. However, with refinement
and practice our ORM system is very predictable and saves tons of time.
It can be done, it just takes time to develop. I have a debut of
gratitude to Andrew Yochum and Chris Hendry. They did a fantastic job
implementing it.
Hans
http://www.cyberxdesigns.com
Kenneth Downs wrote:
That was a nice presentation last night by Chuck.
One thing that struck me was that term for ORM, the "Viet Nam of
programming", I am definitely one of those who will go so far as to
call it that. My own analogy before hearing this one was "heroin for
programmers", they get hooked on it and start dreaming big dreams and
nothing gets done.
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