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Hi Greg,
Greg Woodhouse wrote:
> What I find most frustrating about discussion of
> archetypes is that it is so often vague and intuitive
> in nature, making it rather hard to decipher.I didn't know what level of detail was desired. Also, I'm not an expert
on
archetypes and, as you'll see below, have no intention of putting myself
forward as such. Just thought I'd provide what information I could. I
didn't mean to frustrate, nor to offend. Sorry if I did.>
> > Archetypes provide a capability that's very familiar to programmers,
> > but take it to the next level. At the most basic level, it's about
> > decoupling.
<snip>
> > Archetypes (which I believe do not depend on an RDBMS
> > implementation) provide a similar capability, but take it to the
domain
level.
>
> By domain do you mean application domain?Not sure exactly what you mean by "application." It may be too
low-level.
I think of 'domain' as a place where we can, in general, use the same
words
without having to worry about being misunderstood. So, domain as in
"domain-specific set of concepts" like medicine or aerospace. Weight, for
example, is a fairly unambiguous term in medicine, requiring at most I'd
think, a qualifier for unit of measure. That's because there's an
implicit
assumption: the domain is "medicine as practiced on the planet Earth."
For
aerospace folks, however, you might need to provide additional information
about mass and gravitational field to get to a similar level of (lack of)
ambiguity.<snip>
> >
> > When working with an archetype-enabled system, programs / programmers
> > work directly with domain concepts like blood pressure or height or
> > weight. The underlying data is stored / accessed through the
> > archetype.
>
> But what does this mean?As suggested by your sig, I'll forward your email to the experts and get
back to you with their response(s).Best regards,
Bill-------------------------------------------------------
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