The Object Data Standard: ODMG 3.0 (Paperback)

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.

Features

• 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.

Authors:

R.G.G. Cattell is chair of the ODMG and a Distinguished Engineer in the Java Software Division of Sun Microsystems. He has been with Sun for fifteen years and before that worked for ten years at Xerox PARC and at Carnegie Mellon University. He is best known for his contributions to database systems, particularly object-oriented databases and database user interfaces. He is the author of fifty papers and five books on database systems and other topics. Douglas K. Barry, Executive Director of the ODMG and the editor of Release 3.0, has worked in database technology for over twenty years. As Principal of Barry & Associates, he is also the author of Object Database Handbook: How to Select, Implement, and Use Object-Oriented Databases and XML Data Servers: An I nfrastructure for Effectively Using XML in Electronic Commerce, and for many years he was the Databases columnist in Object Magazine and the ODBMS columnist in Distributed Computing Magazine.

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

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