Synopses & Reviews
This isn't a book about the Object Data Standard; it's the complete,
fully authoritative version of the standard itself, presented by the
researchers who developed it. This book provides all the details
comprising ODMG 3.0, making the latest version of the specification
the most mature and most flexible yet.
When it comes to storing objects in databases, ODMG 3.0 is a
standard with which you need to be familiar-whether you design,
develop, or implement object database products, object-to-relational
database mapping products, or applications based on these products.
* Presents authoritative, completely up-to-date information not available anywhere else.
* Documents all the changes found in version 3.0, including enhancements to the Java language binding, greater semantic precision, and various improvements and corrections throughout the standard.
* Pays special attention to the broadening of the standard to support recent developments in object-to-database mappings (ODMs) that allow objects to be stored in relational databases.
* Provides a way to write Java, C++, or Smalltalk code that works with the entire spectrum of database products, while taking full advantage of your organization's preferred platform.
* Continues to cover everything retained from version 2.0, including key details relating to C++, Smalltalk, and Object Query Language.
* Establishes a level of stability for this increasingly important specification.
Synopsis
elopments in object-to-database mappings (ODMs) that allow objects to be stored in relational databases.
Provides a way to write Java, C++, or Smalltalk code that works with the entire spectrum of database products, while taking full advantage of your organization's preferred platform.Continues to cover everything retained from version 2.0, including key details relating to C++, Smalltalk, and Object Query Language.Establishes a level of stability for this increasingly important specification.Synopsis
- Presents authoritative, completely up-to-date information not available anywhere else.
- Documents all the changes found in version 3.0, including enhancements to the Java language binding, greater semantic precision, and various improvements and corrections throughout the standard.
- Pays special attention to the broadening of the standard to support recent developments in object-to-database mappings (ODMs) that allow objects to be stored in relational databases.
- Provides a way to write Java, C++, or Smalltalk code that works with the entire spectrum of database products, while taking full advantage of your organization's preferred platform.
- Continues to cover everything retained from version 2.0, including key details relating to C++, Smalltalk, and Object Query Language.
- Establishes a level of stability for this increasingly important specification.
Synopsis
ability for this increasingly important specification.
Synopsis
el of stability for this increasingly important specification.
About the Author
R.G.G. Cattell is chair of the <>ODMG and a DistinguishedEngineer in the Java Software Division of Sun Microsystems.He has been with Sun for fifteen years and before that worked forten years at Xerox PARC and at Carnegie Mellon University. He isbest known for his contributions to database systems, particularlyobject-oriented databases and database user interfaces. He is theauthor of fifty papers and five books on database systems and othertopics.Douglas K. Barry, Executive Director of the <>ODMG and theeditor of Release 3.0, has worked in database technology for overtwenty years. As Principal of Barry & Associates, he is also theauthor of
Object Database Handbook: How to Select, Implement, andUse Object-Oriented Databases and
XML Data Servers: An Infrastructure for Effectively Using XML in Electronic Commerce,and for many years he was the Databases columnist in Object Magazineand the ODBMS columnist in Distributed Computing Magazine.
Consultant in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, The Ulster Hospital, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Table of Contents
Preface
1. Overview
2. Object Model
3. Object Specification Languages
4. Object Query Language
5. C++ Binding
6. Smalltalk Binding
7. Java Binding
Appendices