Andres Aguiar's Weblog

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Some time ago I built an Eclipse Plugin to use Apache's Axis WSDL2Java tool.

The main reasons people do not like DataSets are that they are not ‘objects’, so you cannot build a good domain model with them and that the syntax does not feel very OO (dataSet.Table[0].Field instead of Table.Field). They are also expensive to create.

Clemens and Roy are blogging about DataSets, and I’ll join them.

Putting code and data into a single thing is a bad idea for distributed systems. Behavior is bound to the role that data plays in a functional scope. Presentation is a scope, calculation, combination, aggregation and validation are scopes, services and resource access is a scope. Having all code for all scopes on a single thing is bad. (...)

I got some comments to my previous post. I never know if I should answer them in the comments section or in the weblog itself, as I never know if someone reads the comments, so I'll post this here.

A year and half ago I read a transcript of a presentation Steve Ballmer did in a 'Can Win' event and I was really impressed with it. I was so impressed that I had the need to send him an email saying I liked it, and he answered it with a 'Thx' ;).

One of the main reasons for designing software in several layers is to reduce the impact that the changes in one layer have in the upper layers. For example, you keep all your SQL code in a Data Access Layer, and when your schema changes, you just need to change that layer and not the upper ones.