Re: Party Relationship Best Practices

Posted by BJ Freeman on
URL: http://ofbiz.116.s1.nabble.com/Party-Relationship-Best-Practices-tp170029p170036.html

I know that means something to you, but does not convey much to me.
At least as far as how you see Objects in Entities.
At this point not trying to get into weather they should or should not
be changed, just the semantics.

Chris Howe sent the following on 7/23/2006 8:56 AM:

> ie BillingAccountRole, ProductCategoryRole,
> BudgetRole, InvoiceRole, etc
>
> --- BJ Freeman <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
>> When I read about "OBJECT", from a programming point
>> of view, I have an
>> entirely different perspective than the Entity
>> Definition In the Data
>> model books they are based on.
>>
>> So could you define your terms, maybe give an
>> example of what this is about.
>>
>> It would help for clearer communication, IMHO.
>>
>> Chris Howe sent the following on 7/22/2006 11:38 PM:
>>> In the wiki http://docs.ofbiz.org/x/ZAE , I have
>>> listed all of the entities that do not comply with
>> the
>>> ObjectRole entity approach of showing a
>> relationship
>>> between a party and an object.
>>>
>>> Some of these implementations may be just fine.
>> Some
>>> of the implementations may have been done before
>>> utilization of the ObjectRole type of entity.
>> Some of
>>> these entities may not make sense to use the
>>> ObjectRole approach.
>>>
>>> Whatever the case, I would appreciate any feedback
>> on
>>> each of these entities that knowledgable people
>> can
>>> offer.
>>>
>>> Once it is determined that the ObjectRole entity
>> would
>>> be a better approach for an entity, we can make a
>> JIRA
>>> issue for it and tackle the upgrade.
>>>
>>> Thanks all!
>>>
>>
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