Re: Documentation Topics

From: Andrus Adamchik (andru..bjectstyle.org)
Date: Tue Jul 11 2006 - 16:16:05 EDT

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    Hi Malcolm,

    > I can provide some of this content if requested.

    Please do that, this would be awesome. I think you have Wiki karma? I
    would only request to edit each page locally and then load it to Wiki
    in one shot, to make the review easier. Also you've probably already
    noticed those hidden {excerpt} sections that we are using to build
    the table of contents:

    http://objectstyle.org/confluence/display/CAY/Documentation+Guidelines

    Andrus

    On Jul 11, 2006, at 3:58 PM, Malcolm Edgar wrote:
    > Hi All,
    >
    > its great to see Cayenne progressing well to the 1.2 Final release.
    >
    > There are two topics or items I would like to see added/modified
    > the Cayenne documentation.
    >
    > 1. Discussion on Web DataContext design patterns.
    >
    > My experience is that it is not well understood that with the
    > DataContext is held in the session any changes to objects which
    > aren't committed in a request will be carried through in the
    > session and will be committed in a subsequent request commitChanges().
    >
    > Outlining alternative patterns such as a default rollback in a
    > custom DataContext Filter would be very useful. This is the pattern
    > I use, after discussions on this list, and its extremely useful.
    >
    > 2. Many to Many / Flatterned Relationships
    >
    > I think this topic needs some additional discussion or example
    > steps on how to create these relationships. Its not immediately
    > obvious for a newbie.
    >
    > I think these updates will be quite helpful as Cayenne soon goes
    > out to a wider audience of new users.
    >
    > I can provide some of this content if requested.
    >
    > regards Malcolm Edgar
    >
    >



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