The DeRailed Challenge

[BLS]

kris schrieb:

> 4) A back-end interface, to the DB. DDBI currently looks like a 
> reasonable solution, and there's  work currently under way to make it 
> much more useful.

Hi Kris,
DB Frontend and Backend design is my bread and butter job, so I guess I 
am qualified enough to say that connecting to, and querying a DB is not 
enough.  Data Encapsulation and Data Binding is needed in order to 
create Frontend (WEB/Desktop) applications.

The Java folks allready have a solution, which depends NOT (nessesarily) 
  on JDBC. IMO this set of classes can be easily established in D. 
(since Tango)
I would like to encourage you and the DDBI team to have a look at:

http://swinglabs.org/docs/frameworks/databuffer/index.jsp
HTH, Bjoern

A personal note
Having a visual 2 way database design and maintenance tool using DDBI 
creating data encapsulation and binding code based on f.i. a databuffer 
api will make the DSL discussion obsolete.
next (the redux discussion)
Andrei is a Nerd, in no case he is a pragmatic programmer; Of course a 
financial Institute like M. Chase will not modify the DB design 2 times 
a week, but 1) there are more dynamic markets and 2) during the 
development life cycle, means  from version 0 to 1 this happens quit 
often and it is a pain to writing hard-wired db code.

Bjoern