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["Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lfl@intrex.net>]

John Schinnerer wrote:

> If it's ibiblio or nothing, then I support you going with the ORM 
> approach so we can stay as object-oriented as possible given that it'll 
> be MySQL RDB on the back end.

> And if it's ibiblio or nothing and you do take the ORM on MySQL 
> development platform route, I completely agree there is no need to do 
> anything more regarding buying hardware for ibiblio.  I gather you'll 
> have what you need with their existing systems and we can devote all our 
> attentions and resources to development, testing and data-gathering.

John:

Can you provide a layman's explanation of ORM with MySQL and what the 
default/alternative would be?
What are the advantages offered by ORM as the object-oriented approach?

Whhat does object-oriented mean in the ocntext of what we are doing and how 
does it fiffer from
non-OO methods?

OK if you just want to refer me to a text on the subject.

LL
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