Hi Nancy ---

The "Blob" exmaple they give looks like something someone might do in a VFP oApp but not that extreme.....although I have heard of people using oApp as an excuse to propagate techniques they used with SET PROCEDURE TO in ye olde Fox days.



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>Glad you're enjoying the book. I am more and more as I read it. I'm also reading about the Blob and am relieved to report the app object I built wasn't one. That's good, I've "practiced" enough of the other antipatterns!
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>In 11 years I've had exactly two projects (one very small) that were mine from the very beginning. So, that's probably why the anti-patterns is clicking better for me at this point. I've always been retro-fitting (or retro-frittering, as I like to think of it) other people's structures.
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>I agree with your comments with one note: I do think that the management and architecture antipatterns will be useful in designing new systems.
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>>I see why the discussions about oApp being an antipattern have been going on as it appears to represent "The Blob" antipattern.....I think that this book is great when you get work re-engineering or re-architecting an existing
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