Title: Glorp Tutorial Speaker: Niall Ross Mon, August 18, 2:00pm – 3:30pm Video Part1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPN1A4WQyiA Video Part2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25S6cSYgh34 Abstract: The target audience for this hands-on tutorial is those with little or no Glorp experience (but more experienced people willing to pair-program with beginners are most welcome). The tutorial will help them to start using in Glorp in their own applications. Participants will create a simple Glorp descriptor system for a domain model. They will generate a database from it, incorporating some existing legacy. They will write and read between the database and their domain model using Glorp commands. The issues of transactions, caching and refreshing will be addressed.

1. 1
Welcome
August 18, 2014
World Headquarters
Cincinnati, Ohio
Getting started with GLORP
Tutorial: develop a Glorp model, realize it in a database, write and read its data, refactor it.
Niall Ross
(Dirk Verleysen helped on tools,
Dave Wallen on testing)

2. What is GLORP?
•Generic: abstract, declarative, multi-platform f/w
•Lightweight: looks like Smalltalk
session read: Customer where: [:each | each orders size > 0]
•Object: general hierarchic OO models
no ActiveRecord-like style restriction
remains flexible throughout the lifecycle
•Relational: embedded or bound SQL
•Persistence: transactions, constraints, indexes

3. GLORP Architecture
Image
Relational Database
EXternal Database Interface
GLORP
GlorpSession
UnitOfWork
DatabaseAccessor
ExternalDatabaseTransaction
Transaction
Domain Class
GlorpClassModel
Descriptor
DescriptorSystem
DatabaseTable
DatabaseField
DatabaseIndex
DatabaseTableConstraint
Mapping
Join
Table
Column
Index
Constraint
GlorpAttributeModel
instvar

4. The Demo System: a Whisky website

5. Glorp Documentation
•The Tutorial guide: (edit of) my GLORP talk last year
•I will reference the slide(s) for each exercise
•Cincom docs
•VisualWorks GlorpGuide.pdf – good, getting-started coverage
•ObjectStudio MappingToolUsersGuide.pdf – great tool support
•Roger Whitney’s GLORP Tutorial (www.eli.sdsu.edu/SmalltalkDocs/GlorpTutorial.pdf)
•Good course on basic, and some not so basic, things
•Old, needs updating – Glorp now has
•terser syntax
•more is handled automatically
•additional features

6. System Design: Modelling Whisky

7. 2014 Cincom Systems, Inc. All Rights Reserved Developed in the U.S.A. CINCOM and the Quadrant Logo are registered trademarks of Cincom Systems, Inc. All other trademarks belong to their respective companies.

8. Contact info
•Glorp
nross@cincom.com
dwallen@cincom.com Glorp team
•Star Team (Smalltalk Strategic Resources)
sfortman@cincom.com Smalltalk Director
athomas@cincom.com Smalltalk Product Manager
jjordan@cincom.com Smalltalk Marketing Manager
•And for all your whisky needs, Dirk @ Dram 242 !

9. The GLORP doctor is IN