When to use Object View ?

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Hi,

I am taking a look Object Relational feature of oracle, i.e : object
view. (some says that it is the most useful thing from oracle object
feature).

I still don't find the cases when I can make use of object view.

Could any body please tell me, what are the cases that we can find
Object Views extremely useful?

Thank you for your help,
Krist

[Tony Andrews]

They are useful if you have to work with an OO application development
team that says "we can't work with relational tables ... impedance
mismatch ... blah blah ... we need the data presented as objects." For
such a case, rather than redesign your relational database into some
baroque object-relational horror, you can instead leave your relational
database as it is and provide object views to give the application the
OO perspective it needs.

If you don't have to work in such an environment then you won't find
any use for object views either.