[DUG] OO Programming

[Alister Christie]

Most of our code is RAD based (on top of the BDE), but I'm starting to 
refactor small pieces of it into testable objects, there is probably 
100k lines of "legacy code" that I'm maintaining and I'm finding it too 
significant to manage in any reliable way.  I've been studying up a bit 
and that's helping. 

One project that I have been working on is to convert a BDE application 
to DBX, and I'm probably 80% of the way there - I've split the app into 
a client and a server - with no BDE related code in the client (it's a 
very fat client), next step is probably to use Richards DBX4BDE 
components to make the server running DBX over the BDE then just swap 
out the SQLConnection driver.  Currently I'm stuck in the testing mode 
comparing the old version's behaviour to the new version (oh what joy) - 
but I digress....

Alister Christie
Computers for People
Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266
http://www.salespartner.co.nz
PO Box 13085
Johnsonville
Wellington 



Alister Christie wrote:
> Do people on this list put in the effort to write proper object oriented 
> code, or write mostly RAD style code, using datasets with data-aware 
> controls and stuff - operating on a customer dataset, rather than the 
> somewhat more abstract instances of TCustomer for example?  (does this 
> question make sense?)
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