We use a common base class to handle most Assembler functions
without writing a separate DAO class for each destination. The only
trouble we have in this design is using the API functions in
AbstractAssembler which give no reference whatsoever to the Class
of object to act on. One such function is getItem(Map). The Map
only contains id information, with no reference to what kind of
object to retreive. If the destination string was included, or a
Class object, we could get any record in the system by writing only
one function.
We have written our fill routines to pass in an object class
name so one fill function could be written which dispatches the
correct query logic. And, with create, update, delete, we have an
object of the correct type passed in, so our persistence framework
takes care of the rest.
This greatly reduces the workload of server side programming.
We spend our time writing business logic instead of plumbing....
When designing FDS functions, please keep in mind that users of FDS
wish to use frameworks in our applications, not brute force
programming... After all, that's why we use Flex in the first
place. Thank you.
