Mike really came through with a great tutorial on entity relationships. I was off and running building new tests and features in a matter of minutes. I was avoiding creating a mapper for my link table because I thought (for some weird reason not related to Jaxor) that Jaxor was going to handle the linkages for me. I think if I had given that a try I would have found the correct path, it just would have taken a while longer... I would have taken until Saturday, but I would have figured it out :)
My knowledge of Jaxor has gone from a dull spoon to a steak knife. Watch out folks, he's dangerous!
I would like to be a little more specific about what I learned yesterday... One of the doofus ideas that I have hung onto for so long was vanquished yesterday. At some point in time, I got it into my head that you should insert info into a db, then go and retrieve it so that you could get the id. Mike's suggestion of generating the PK up front has been suggested before, and I have dismissed it for various reason, none of which are very technically sound. This time, I gave it a try because I have learned (recently) that doing things the "right way" makes the rest of the work easier.
I am starting to understand that some of my biggest problems are my own misconceptions. Things that I have "learned" in the past may not be the "right way" and I may be robbing myself of the benefits presented by the new things I am learning today. Tomorrow, I will replace my puny DO's with monster Jaxor Entities and see where that road leads.
I think my new knife is already starting to make a differnce...
Posted by carl at November 24, 2003 11:08 PM
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