joomla/joomla-platform — pull request #1148 by AmyStephen (2012-04-11 23:48:13+00:00)
Title: Database Factory proposed tuning

I like JFactoryDatabase, but I think it could be a little more straight forward and reduce overlap with JDatabaseDriver.

In my thinking, JFactoryDatabase should 1) establish a connection to a database 2) save that connection as a static object for later use with queries, importers, exporters, and iterators.

This pull request might make more clear my points in this https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!topic/joomla-dev-platform/KkmzoHMcAkE