CSC/ECE 517 Fall 2012/ch1 1w10 pk
1w10: Language extensions (not patterns or packages) for ORM.
There are many design patterns and software tools for referencing relational dbs from o-o languages. ActiveRecord, however, is a new approach, integrating support into the Rails framework itself. Do other languages have support that is as tightly integrated as ActiveRecord? Compare the ease of programming with language-level support to the ease of programming with external tools. Improve the existing work.