"Jonathan van den Berg" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>Although database level middleware is quick and easy to use for C/S
>development, I believe that the above list should contain:
>
>   3) The "remote method" answer (which allows server developers to express
>their database as a series of remote invocable methods, thus encapsulating
>the physical data with a logical series of API's)

Good point.

...
>Very well said. I would add the concept of "privacy"...
>Whether a database is normalized or not, it still is the semantic blueprint
>for how data will be managed, and is not the business of the client to be
>privileged to this blueprint.

I.e., there should be a separation between the internal reference and the
external reference.  In addition, we should strive for late binding (as
late as our performance requirements will allow) and we should avoid
hard-wiring too much.  These good software practices are necessary to
fulfill your excellent requirements:

>... This model has been used with MPE as the server engine
>for both the database and the application server, as well as with UNIX.

"Has been used"?  I wish you had used the ACTIVE voice to reveal the ACTOR
instead of having used the passive voice to HIDE the actor :-)

Now that you have piqued my curiosity, allow me to ask: WHO has used this
model "with MPE as the server engine for both the database and the
application server, as well as with UNIX"?

This whole topic is a great subject for the Database track at HP World in
San Francisco.  I would be interested in including references to your work
in my paper (which I will publish in Adager's web site in due course).  In
addition, as I revise the historic "Database Dynamics" paper (which I wrote
13 years ago), I would like to update it with new material, such as yours.

Good job!
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