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>I am working on (struggling thru!) my first real abstract OOP project. I have a 'mediator' that controls 3 processes. Everything was humming along fine until I realized that in the last process (called Updator - where various tables and fields get updated) there are *multiple* items to be updated. These items are not necessarily in the same table, or even in the same *type* of table (could be Access, Oracle etc.) I could need to connect to these tables via VFP, ODBC, ADO etc.
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>I'm not sure design-wise what is the best way to generically handle this situation. At this point, my stumbling block is not the fact that there are different types of data that I am dealing with, but the fact that I have to go thru the update process MULTIPLE times. I'm not sure generically how to set this up.
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As for the different types of data you have to access you can use a facade and/or strategy design patterns

as for the "updator" how do you get the multiple items there in the first place?

Arnon