Chapter 7. Combining Comet with CRUD
Comet's event-driven architecture is new and exciting. The majority of web applications, however, are centered around a CRUD (create, read, update, and delete) architecture for managing entities.
Now that we're all fired up to use Comet, how do we integrate it into a CRUD-style application. We've already referred to CRUD in Chapter 3, in the naive implementation of the Magnetic Poetry application. Let's briefly review the typical features of a CRUD-based web application:
Domain data is stored in a relational database
In the business logic tier of the application, this data is represented by an object model, describing the domain in terms of entities with properties and behavior.
Often, an "object-relational mapping" ...
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