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RE: SF 2.0?

Trent L. Taylor — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:22:11 GMT

[quote]As you say, it's a real utopia to aim for is what linq can bring to the table but my experience is that it's still for MS Tech Ed demos and not real world stuff.[/quote]

Couldn't have said it better myself! :)

RE: SF 2.0?

Geoff Hirst — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 12:37:11 GMT

Guys,

Glad to hear someone else thinks the same about linq. I thought I was doing something wrong with it.

As you say, it's a real utopia to aim for is what linq can bring to the table but my experience is that it's still for MS Tech Ed demos and not real world stuff.

Looking forward to the next iteration of 1.6.6.

best

Geoff.

RE: SF 2.0?

Trent L. Taylor — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 09:45:29 GMT

LINQ is on hold until there are some vast performance improvements. To execute a single query, LINQ goes through 4 layers of XML mappings, which is fine when dealing with a small application and dtabase but when producing real-world large scale applications, there are just some major performance issues. We are all excited about an integrated query language, but from all of our research and testing there is still a long way to go here. We will be adding some hooks for those developers who just "must" have it...but this not currently a priority. StrataFrame is a tool that is expected to direct developers down the path of following best-practices and standards...and we feel that we would be remiss in recommeding LINQ for any real-world application development. It is nice in the classroom, but in a commercial application it could get a software development company in trouble.

But to answer your question, we will be releasing things incrementally. There have been some large improvements to the DDT in the 1.6.6 build and there will continue to be new features added prior to the official 1.6.6 release in both the DDT and the framework. We will then be reworking the BO Mapper and adding a lot of new functionality and code genereation options (i.e. make it easier to create Custom Properties, etc. through the BO Mapper, expose child BOs, etc.).

So it will be a process over 2008 and 2009. But there will be a lot released over the next 12 months.

SF 2.0?

Chan — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 09:19:47 GMT

Hi,
I was hearing about SF 2.0 for quite a long time, which mentioned will be including a lot of fanstatic features such as LINQ support, ORM mapper and etc. I would like to know, what is your roadmap for this? Will it be 2008, 2009 or... all this features will be released incrementally?

Thank you