Re: dev tool help...

[Pete Hall <peteh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 10:01 PM 7/9/98 -0400, Jon Paris wrote:
>>> This means that maintenance is much simpler and can often be done whilst
>applications are live, even when the database structure is being changed.
>
>Personally I wouldn't classify this as a sign of intelligence !!! <vbg>

I talked to some of the Genexus folks a couple of years ago. From what they 
told me, you build a model of the system, which then is used to generate the 
application. In instances where the data model changes, the entire database is 
apparently imported into the new structure. This was a show stopper for us, 
because we didn't feel that it would be possible to regenerate the system 
within an acceptable length of time. While this severe limitation has probably 
been removed by now, I'm fairly confident that when you are changing a Genexus 
system, you are not mucking around in the real live execution code. I've been 
wrong before though.

Pete Hall
peteh@inwave.com 
http://www.inwave.com/~peteh/

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