OODBs?

Blake blake at kingdomrpg.com
Fri Jun 8 23:21:36 UTC 2007


On Fri, 08 Jun 2007 16:17:03 -0700, Brian Rice <water at tunes.org> wrote:

>
> 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).

Why...why...why....THAT'S CHEATING!!!! ;-)



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