Building Scalable Database Applications: Object-Oriented Design, Architectures and Implementations

by Peter Heineckiens, Mary Loomis, Peter M. Heinckiens

Book Overview

This work uses practical case studies of real-world large-scale projects to explain how to build robust database applications. It develops a stable and reusable business model for buiding scalable... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0201310139
• ISBN13: 9780201310139
• Release Date: February 1998
• Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.4" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Brilliant

I think some of the other reviewers might forget this book is at the time of this review writing is 5 years old. At the time of .NET's official non beta release it was just over 3 years old. Truly, this book is as relevant today as it was when it was written. Perhaps some of the concepts of persistence are missed by the first reviewer in context of .NET and certainly with the impending object-spaces microsoft technology much of this may be moot. I certainly do believe that GUI's are very much tied to the business model (ESPECIALLY in .NET apps) and I have benefited tremendously in perspective by applying the database conceptually as another view to my business model.At any rate, excellent theory and interesting approaches to implementing a persistence architecture. Certainly I do not agree with everything I read but it offered a new perspective to a fascinating problem. A very worthwhile and applicable book on all levels. Worth the price.

Great info, but a little confusing

This book contains several great ideas for abstracting the persistence mechanism out from your business objects. Hienckiens provides several insightful ideas about applications development as such - e.g., regarding the persistence store as just another view on your business model, and creating "informationbases" instead of just databases. Overall, the examples were confusing, however - particularly because he outlines one method for instantiating a persistence mechanism at the beginning of the book (inheriting from PSets), but uses another for the example at the book's end (inheriting from a virtual IdObject). Still, great advice - a welcome addition to object-relational mapping theory.

Excellent illustrative method on abstracting persistence

The book was very useful in defining and illustrating a loosely coupled business and data layer. The author clearly defines the goals that should be strived for in abstracting persistence of business objects in N Tier designs. I would have liked the book to go into a bit more depth in the certain critical areas, i.e. transaction processing, performance tuning, data cache, ...