Re: [Gnumed-devel] hibernate

[Horst Herb]

sjtan wrote:
> http://hibernate.bluemars.net/1.html
>
> I wonder if someone has thought out something like this for python.

Well, I actually think the scope of gmPgObject goes way beyond hibernate 
(if it ever gets finished - tiol now I seem to be the only one working 
on it).
With Hibernate, you have to manually map object properties to table 
columns, don't you? Like PyORM?
With gmPgObject, the module parses the database metadata and creates 
objects and their properties on the fly. Still needs a lot of work to 
implement the many-to-many relationships, and I haven't tested yet 
nested foreign key relationships (but should work in principle already).

> BTW, how do people feel about java prototypes?

Nothing wrong with delivering prototypes in any language mot developers 
can read (Java is probably familiar enough to most of us), but I would 
prefer Python since it would waste less time if the prototype finds 
acceptance.

That said, with the newer "modular service" architecture, implementing 
individual modules in Java should be viable.

Horst