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The Iterative Reference Model: A new approach to OO

Wed, 15 Dec 2010 14:20:47 -0500

Strange article !...

Clarification

Wed, 15 Dec 2010 07:19:17 -0500

Basically, I explained this in my previous post. I have updated the article with this, because a lot of people ask me this question :-)

huh?

Wed, 15 Dec 2010 05:00:21 -0500

Just read your article and when I saw the 6 tables that you created out of the model, I had a total "QUE?" experience. Where in the world did these tables come from? Basically it are 3 entities and 3 M-N relationships, AFAIK not what was to be...

Clarification

Tue, 14 Dec 2010 15:27:07 -0500

Thanks for the opportunity to clarify this!

There are basically two reasons why I use join tables for one-to-many relationships:

1) I don't want to "pollute" domain tables with list indices, as I said in the article
2) Suppose...

Re: What new approach?

Tue, 14 Dec 2010 15:26:06 -0500

I'm not sure i understand the solution. You merely seem to be giving weight to one domain object over another. What if you have a Customer, Account and Order objects and their associations. Which one would you pick to start with?...

New approach?

Tue, 14 Dec 2010 09:21:45 -0500

I have to agree with other commenters, your "new approach" seems the traditional one to me. It's how the Hibernate docs tell you to model this type of relationships.

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Re: What new approach?

Tue, 14 Dec 2010 08:24:28 -0500

Not from what I've seen... But I'm relatively young, so I haven't experienced the really old stuff...

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What new approach?

Tue, 14 Dec 2010 08:04:46 -0500

The 'new' approach you are writing about is the traditional one ;-)

Thanks

Tue, 14 Dec 2010 04:53:48 -0500

Thanks! There are always upsides and downsides and not all usecases lend themselves for this approach. But I'm glad you liked it!

The Iterative Reference Model: A new approach to OO

Tue, 14 Dec 2010 04:35:19 -0500

Interesting article and I'm glad you took the time to discuss the positives and negatives!!

Emergent Design

Mon, 13 Dec 2010 20:34:27 -0500

Without having read your article thoroughly, it seems roughly similar to the topic of this book:

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Re: Wrong Approach

Mon, 13 Dec 2010 16:52:35 -0500

To which relations do you refer? There are two one-to-many's: Company -> Contact and Company -> ContactMoment. There's one many-to-many: Contact -> ContactMoment In the Iterative approach, basically the one-to-many's become many-to-one's,...

Wrong approach

Mon, 13 Dec 2010 11:05:57 -0500

I taken a quick look at your article.

Probably I'm missing something but, in my opinion what you call traditional approach is totally wrong: you couldn't model one-to-many relationship in a many-to-many way.

The Iterative Reference Model: A new approach to OO

Mon, 13 Dec 2010 08:53:27 -0500

Object Oriented Models, even when very loosely coupled and very highly cohesive, can become quite complex over time. Also, when developing applications from scratch, it can be difficult to encapsulate all the requirements of the customer into one...