Re: ADC Core Data article

FROM : mmalcolm crawford
DATE : Sat Apr 30 10:18:48 2005

On Apr 9, 2005, at 11:32 PM, Todd Blanchard wrote:

> Reading the article, it looks like warmed over EOF but without any 
> adaptors for real databases.  There's nothing about the modeling 
> tool, but I'll wager that they've done away with the part where you 
> design the tables as well as the entities and then supply 
> mappings.  I'll suspect (with no real info as I'm not paying money 
> to ADC to support my hobby) that you just design the entities and 
> it does naive entity to table mapping in the SQLite adaptor.
> Which does absolutely nothing for people who already have databases 
> that want to build interfaces.
>

<http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/CoreData/
index.html>
See, "Core Data looks similar to EOF. What are the differences?"

Debate about "whether or not Core Data should be EOF" etc. is not 
appropriate for this list.  Please take any such discussion 
elsewhere.  This forum is reserved for technical discussion of the 
actual technology.


> EOF had optimistic locking.  I suspect, given the focus on desktop 
> apps, that this is absent and will need to be written.


This turns out not to be the case.

mmalc