Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Reporting and OR/M

Just an off the cuff thought about using Object Relational Mapping (Hibernate, TopLink, ActiveRecord, etc.) when doing reporting: Does it make sense to have objects corresponding to specific reports that result in denormalized data, so as to hold the results of the query? It makes it a little more sense if you have a view corresponding to the report, and then a object corresponding to the view. At some point it does seem to cross a line of excessive abstraction and an overgrown data model.

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