CRUD Patterns and Frameworks

[Josh Rehman]

Create, retrieve, update, delete. It seems like this would be a great oppurtunity for a pattern and/or a framework. Has anyone written such a thing? If so where is it? If not, why not?
With kind thanks,
Josh Rehman

[Kyle Brown]

Read the Object-Relational mapping patterns in Martin Fowler's Enterprise Application Architectures.
Kyle

[Josh Rehman]

That is indeed a fantastic resource. I won't be surprised if his book (IIRC out in November) becomes a standard along with the GoF _Design Patterns_.
However, that is not quite what I'm asking about. Let me see if I can be more specific. One thing I'd like is a CRUD framework that I can leverage to build GUIs against a database. It seems like something that could be written, and I'm wondering if it already has been.
Perhaps the problem is too general to write into a framework? Alternatively, perhaps there are too many concrete decisions (constraints) necessarily imposed on such a system.

[Kyle Brown]

Do you just mean a Java persistence framework? There are lots of open source ones available, like Castor, Turbine, and others. Do a google search on those two terms and you should be able to see them.
Kyle

[Josh Rehman]

Nope, that's not what I'm talking about. I think I'll narrow the scope of my query and post to the Java GUI forum instead.
Sorrry

[Ilja Preuss]

Perhaps http://www.nakedobjects.org/ is what you are looking for???
[ October 02, 2002: Message edited by: Ilja Preuss ]

[Josh Rehman]

Originally posted by Ilja Preuss:
Perhaps http://www.nakedobjects.org/ is what you are looking for???
[ October 02, 2002: Message edited by: Ilja Preuss ]

No but that's a really cool link, thanks! (And actually it's pretty close )