Implementation details, I'm sure. To be abstracted into a virtual interface class... ¦D Cheers Nuno Souto in sunny Sydney, Australia dbvision@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ----- Original Message ----- From: "TOMPKINS, MARGARET" <MARGARET.TOMPKINS@xxxxxxxx> > As an academic exercise, I recall one developer who modeled the = > universe with two entities, "things" and "thing types". After some = > discussion, we realized that "thing types" were actually "things" also. = > Hence, we were down to one entity. Of course it had a recursive = > relationship. And yes, there would be a lot of code to write to make it = > work. :-) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------