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Unit 2 / Devise your Application's Data Model

  • Remember the section on XOTcl Core's Interface to the content repository presented earlier.
  • Notes will be realized as special kind of Content Items in the Content Repository
    • On the one hand, this allows to seamlessly integrate framework features such as comments, notifications, category management, full-text searches etc. with our notes application.
    • On the other hand, we gain all benefits from the Content Repository (access, revision management, structuring, ...)
  • By using the OO Content Repository interface it is sufficient to define a new type of content item. The SQL data model is created automatically
  • Let's consider our application data model conceptually