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O/R Mapping in Smalltalk presentation Alan Knight: Cincom Wednesday 2:00:00 pm to 3:30:00 pm
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 a senior developer with Cincom Systems, where he is involved with web application development and database mapping. Before joining Cincom he was with The Object People, where he served in a variety of roles, most recently chief architect for the TOPLink family of Object-Relational Mapping products, both Smalltalk and Java. He is a former member of the Sun JSR committees for JDO and EJB 2.0, co-author of the book Mastering ENVY/Developer, a former columnist for The Smalltalk Report, and a frequent speaker at a variety of conferences. He is also program chair of Smalltalk Solutions 2003.
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