I'm going to start posting some details on StS 2005 daily - here's some details on one of the talks you can see by attending:

Object-Relational Mapping

presentation

Knight, Alan: Cincom Systems

Monday 8:30 am to 9:15 am

Abstract: Abstract: Few areas arouse as many different opinions as storing objects in relational database. There are some fundamental issues in doing this efficiently. Also, we often don't have the luxury of designing our own schema, but have to deal with one that does not correspond well to our object model. This presentation outlines some of these problems and the way they are addressed in the open-source GLORP framework (http://www.glorp.org), as well as how we plan to move forward on database mapping software in future releases of VisualWorks.

Bio: Alan Knight is the lead on the GLORP project, and has worked in relational persistence for many years. He was previously the chief architect for the TOPLink family of products, and was a member of the Sun expert groups on EJB 2.0 and JDO. He is co- author of Mastering ENVY/Developer (Cambridge, 2001) and has written and spoken extensively on a variety of topics. He is program chair of Smalltalk Solutions 2005.

I'll have more every day. See you in Orlando!