>>I'm curious about how you decided on this approach of "before" and "after" hooks. I've seen that done quite a bit in Visual Maxframe, but don't remember reading about it anywhere. Maybe this would be good material for an article.
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>To be honest, the presence of all of these methods arose from a need at one time or other. I created a bizobject class, and in deploying it in different situations, I would come across a need for a special operation that would need to occur before every delete, after every add, etc. (The add operation itsef is trivial: the object knows what alias it is adding a record to, how to get the PK, etc.- the app specific stuff is where the code needs to go)

I just ran up on the need myself, and was thinking it through when I saw your message. Then I remembered VMP and Drew's dozens of empty "before" and "after" methods and the lights went on.

>As for an article, well, it might be a while- I'm already working feverishly on several others.

Where and when will they appear?