OOP

Anecdote Wall (Was: Mixing P/R philosophy with OO)
Patrick May wrote: "frebe" <frebe73(a)gmail.com> writes: I have never, in this thread or any other, portrayed OO techniques as a silver bullet. You, on the other hand, have made the positive claim that mapping solutions to the relational model and SQL provides value in practice. Defend... 11 Apr 2007 15:58

Dependency Management (Was: Mixing P/R philosophy with OO)
Patrick May wrote: "Harry" <simonsharry(a)gmail.com> writes: On Apr 10, 5:32 am, Patrick May <p...(a)spe.com> wrote: My current understanding is that the RDBMS is a layer [ . . . ] providing me a very valuable, a very significant service in terms of something (set theory) that I'm... 28 Apr 2007 20:07

Abstraction (Was: Mixing P/R philosophy with OO)
JXStern wrote: On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 22:19:09 -0400, Thomas Gagne <tgagne(a)wide-open-west.com> wrote: JXStern wrote: <snip> Did you see the article in the recent CACM, some professor who thinks cs students should be regularly tested for their ability to abstract, and expelled from th... 11 Apr 2007 13:20

JOLT awards
I read a list of interesting products that won this JOLT award http://www.joltawards.com a few days ago. Do you think this an important recognition or just one of those "easy" or "sponsorized" prizes? Thankyou ... 11 Apr 2007 15:26

USENIX FAST '08 Call For Papers Now Available
------------------------------------------------------------------------ Call for Papers: 6th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '08) February 26-29, 2008 San Jose, California, USA http://www.usenix.org/fast08/cfpa Paper Submission Deadline: September 12, 2007 Sponsored by USENIX in coopera... 10 Apr 2007 13:44

Databases as objects
Nick Malik [Microsoft] wrote: "Thomas Gagne" <tgagne(a)wide-open-west.com> wrote in message news:BoWdne5kX_XLJgfYnZ2dnUVZ_tmknZ2d(a)wideopenwest.com... <snip> I agree it must be carefully implemented to be useful, but not that it is labor-intensive. If you look at the SQL you can ... 12 Apr 2007 13:26

AOP beginner
I'm new to AOP, I just read an article about AspectJ. If I understood it well, aspects are a kind of patterns which match other object's method, and execute a code fragment before/after the calling of the matched method. Correct if I'm wrong. If would also be thankful, if you told which source have you learnt AO... 11 Apr 2007 03:16

Hibernate Vs. SQL
topmind wrote: Harry wrote: Even if more complex than the RDBMS itself as you say, don't you think this one-time decision (of choosing to go with Hibernate) would be a huge pay-off to an applications developer in terms of its ability to support a whole slew of RDBMSs? Most companies do not swi... 7 Apr 2007 22:04

protected visibility
I'm refactoring an old code Java code and I found many protected attributes and methods. My first reaction was to avoid protected (something like "protected visibility cosnidered harmful"), but I couldn't think of a particular reason to do it. Having a protected attirbute feels like having a public attribute fo... 26 Apr 2007 06:13

instanceof
Let's say we have a bunch of events being fired and each event object gives access to a foo object. These foo objects represent a generic 2D location within a grid. There seems to be 2 schools of thought about whether such a foo object should be able to draw itself or just provide the state to enable another to... 10 Apr 2007 15:19