Picking the ideal interface to abstract is critically important (and very hard).
In the case of ORMs, available solutions abstract the schema (tables, rows, fields), the objects, or use templates. My solution abstracted JDBC/ODBC. The only leak in my abstraction was missing metadata, which I was able to plug (with much effort!).
My notions for interfaces, modularity, abstractions are mostly informed by the book "Design Rules: The Power of Modularity". http://a.co/hXOGJq1
Picking the ideal interface to abstract is critically important (and very hard).
In the case of ORMs, available solutions abstract the schema (tables, rows, fields), the objects, or use templates. My solution abstracted JDBC/ODBC. The only leak in my abstraction was missing metadata, which I was able to plug (with much effort!).
My notions for interfaces, modularity, abstractions are mostly informed by the book "Design Rules: The Power of Modularity". http://a.co/hXOGJq1