Martin Fowler: ORM Hate
Martin Fowler: ORM Hate
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bliki: Orm Hate
Object-Relational Mappers get a lot of hate from people who misjudge the complexities of the task.
This is a pragmatic piece of Fowler on the rather dry topic of Object-relational mappings - in short, the attempt to marry an object-oriented code base with a relational data base.
Usually you'd get enough early success to commit deeply to the framework and only after a while did you realize you were in a quagmire - this is where I sympathize greatly with Ted Neward's famous quote that object-relational mapping is the Vietnam of Computer Science
What Fowler refers to here, is Ted Neward's article "The Vietnam Of Computer Science"