Apple WebObjects 5 - Manual (Page 36)

36 The Enterprise Objects Advantage
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Apple Computer, Inc. January 2002
C H A P T E R 3
Enterprise Objects
■ It improves back-end portability. Database vendors have different ways of
implementing logic. If you have to support more than one database and you’re
using WebObjects, you don’t have to implement the logic multiple times and
thus suffer maintenance problems.
■ Java is a good development language. With WebObjects, you program in Java,
an industrial-strength language designed from the ground up to be
object-oriented. The programmable variants of SQL usually have some
object-oriented features, but are basically procedural languages.
Figure 3-6 Implementing business logic in the database
Application
Relational
Database
Business logic