First thing Tuesday morning, Thomas Gagne gets things started with "There is no Spoon: Overcoming Object-Relational Impedance Mismatch in OLTP Systems". There was a long discussion on this topic in one of the Smalltalk forums earlier this year, so I expect a vigorous session:

OO programmers have long believed their classes and objects should map directly to tables and rows. That belief is so compelling it has spawned an industry of object relational frameworks, specialized consultants, conferences, and best practices catering to itself. This presentation will discuss how thinking of the database as though it were a single (very large) object allows programmers to exploit the strengths of both OO and relational models without either imposing its design on the whole or diluting the purity of each.

See you in Toronto!

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