Hello from a Filemaker renegade

[Pierre Sahores]

Le 6 avr. 04, à 19:12, Bruce Robertson a écrit :

>>> 3. Are there functions, plug-ins, tool-sets to handle complex
>>> relationships, entity diagrams, data validation?
>>
>> Can't help on that for I do not understand what you're meaning... =/
>
> Those are all very basic database terms. The fact that they are 
> unfamiliar
> and do not appear much in Rev database discussions suggests that the 
> state
> of affairs in Rev database management is not very robust.

Hum,

Perhaps that from a strict technical point of view, it will always 
seems more academic to "develop" networked apps in coding basic core 
java or, more seriously, in using dedicated framrworks alike VP-UML, 
Eclipse, Struts, Tile, Ant, XDoclet and tools like JBoss, TomCat, JSP's 
and EJB 2.0, AndroMDA, Oracle and so on,... to get apps growing in 
shared CVS repertories, as coded, along months, by 10 to 20 developpers 
teams..., to get, to the end, apps that are going to run 60 times 
slower than the ones that a designer will create and build, in the same 
time, in using an Ultra High Level Langage, alike Revolution...

If you can get your project up in thinking it before starting to code 
it, you will find lots of interesting things in learning how to get the 
best from tools alike Metacard, Revolution (or, even, but in a lessly 
mesure, by using PHP and Rebol). Else, it's probably best to choose the 
low level technical way. It's not because the XP programming paradigm 
is natively supported by Rev that anyone can see it nor need to get the 
best from it...

Revolution is, as VHLL, core engine, IDE and framework, a developpement 
tool built to let us manage and handle the more powerfull projects we 
can think, including all the possibillities of the object-relational 
mapping paradigm. But, sure that, just as an example, to drive and 
manage, under Unix, PostgreSQL, Sybase ASE 12.5 or others ACID 
compliant datawarehouse back-ends trough MC or Rev, it will need more 
than just time and work...

Hope this can help,

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