[Zope-CMF] Re: DBObjects and CMF

[Shane Landrum]

On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 07:54:06PM +0100, Gilles Lenfant wrote:
> 
> You could have a test drive with Modeling too.
> 
> http://modeling.sourceforge.net/
> 
> Inspired from Apple's Enterprise Objects Framework (for Objective C and
> Java) and adapted to Python and Zope by Sebastien Bigaret.
> 
> In my opinion, Modeling approach may be better and more "elegant" for
> complex databases and complex logic because it provides an intermediate
> abstraction layer between the database and the python persistent business
> classes. But DBObjects is easier to play with for faster development with
> simpler databases.

Merci; this also seems like a possible approach. The drawback I can
see for this is that it doesn't use Zope's database adaptors; the ability
to manage daatabase connections TTW is very useful. I'll look into it
a bit more.

srl
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