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What about those all enterprise integration tools (visual mappers for xml/relational/web-services) like Altova Mapforce, MicroSoft Biztalk Mapper and Stylus Stu
by 6ren 15y ago
What about those all enterprise integration tools (visual mappers for xml/relational/web-services) like Altova Mapforce, MicroSoft Biztalk Mapper and Stylus Studio? Oracle and IBM have similar tools.
I haven't used these - but they look like they'd nail this problem. Is there a problem with them?
- nickik 15y agoI don't know these tools you mentions but I thing generally that these kinds of tools are the problem or at least they are treatments of the symptoms. Enterprise tools tend to make everything more complicated then it is (somebody else mentiond map/filter as a cure) and to help you fight this complexety you need even more complex tools. In the end you just have tonnes of Code and Tones of tools with tones of configuretions. Abstracting away ofer thing that are hard to abstract is a typical error these kinds of tools make. You cant just abstract away networks or databases. Sure a simple ORM is fine for most blogs but if you end up writting 30 lines of java code to do something you could have writen in 2 lines of sql something is not right. This video teaches the basic idea: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy