OODBs?

Brian Rice water at tunes.org
Fri Jun 8 23:17:03 UTC 2007


On Jun 8, 2007, at 9:55 AM, Blake wrote:

> On Thu, 07 Jun 2007 17:26:26 -0700, James Foster  
> <Smalltalk at jgfoster.net> wrote:
>
>> On Thursday 07 June 2007 11:35 am, you wrote:
>>> That's cool. Are there any Smalltalk reporting tools?
>>
>> No more (or less) than with any other Smalltalk. Some of our  
>> customers are
>> using VA Smalltalk and a third-party add-on called "Visibility" (see
>> http://www.totallyobjects.com/Viscol.htm).
>
> Interesting. I know there are some banks that use ST  
> extensively....perhaps they have internally generated tools?

No, they generally use O/R mappers into relational databases (I am  
thinking of a specific bank headquartered in my area whose Smalltalk  
employees I know). O/R mappers are not OODB's, they just *emulate*  
OODB's (e.g. Glorp).

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-Brian
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