Thursday, May 01, 2003

Begone, Anonymity. Hence the minor change in title.  Goodnight, all. Maybe relational databases were a good idea after all. 2:02:57 AM

Hibernate Coda. After monkeying around with my model in the oh-so-glorious-and-yet-amazingly-unmaintained Together/J, I managed to get Hibernate to emit exactly the SQL that I wanted.  My joining table has the extra properties that I wanted.  The Java model of it is still kind of ugly, but c'est la vie. Maybe the extra object I ended up with is a good idea after all.  It just seems like there should be another way. With knowledge-based programming I can do this stuff easily, and have pattern-matched rules running across it all.  I still predict that, say, ten years from now, pattern-based languages will begin to dominate. The patterns need to be able to match against everything, metadata and data.  We have two good models for doing that -- LISP S-Expressions and CLIPS-style facts.  I can live with either.  1:43:32 AM