The dynamic APIs of Chameleon are not necessarily for everyone. There are pros and cons for using these APIs instead of using statically generated stubcode. The table below summarizes these issues:

	Dynamic Interface	Static Interface
Needs code generation?
Does the compiler find spelling mistakes?
Advantages	Messages and tables can be explored dynamically. Applications can be delivered without stubcode.	Guaranteed to avoid the runtime problems caused by mistyping the name of a column.
Disadvantages	Cannot avoid the problem caused by mistyping a name.	Applications have to be delivered with stubcode.
Changing messages and table grammar	Do not need to recompile.	Need to recompile.

If you do decide that the dynamic interface is right for you, then proceed to the next section to learn how the dynamic API works.