[Mpls-pm] Frameworks and session management?

[Dave Rolsky]

On Thu, 9 Nov 2006, David Naughton wrote:

> I'd love to hear more regarding Alzabo vs. DBIx::Class. Can you be more
> specific, maybe even point to an already-existing comparison?

Well, I think it all starts from a basic philsophical difference. IMO, 
when you design an app which needs a dbms (and I think many, many apps do 
need one) you should start with the design of your database, and then 
write code. In other words, data has primacy over code. OO is a terrible 
way of managing data, and anything that makes you use OO mechanisms for 
data management seems wrong, as does starting with a class design.

I think Alzabo supports the "database-first" design method, whereas 
DBIx::Class (and Class::DBI even moreso) support an OO-first design. That 
doesn't mean you couldn't use them differently, but I think they're 
oriented towards people who don't want to know as much about the DBMS, and 
would prefer to just think of objects.


-dave

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