Object-Oriented Application Development Using the Caché Postrelational Database

By Wolfgang Kirsten and Michael Ihringer

Book Overview

This second, revised and expanded edition includes the many new features of the new release, Caché 5. There is a comprehensive description of the new Caché Studio with its improvements for developing and debugging applications as well as a whole new chapter about XML- and SOAP-based Web services. The chapters about Java, ActiveX and the SQL Manager have undergone a complete revision.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3540009604
• ISBN13: 9783540009603
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 390 Pages
• Weight: 2.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.8" x 9.8"

Customer Reviews

Good companion for cache developer

Have gotten extensive use out of this book from my time as a cache developer. Good guide for a programmer who's new to cache, and then later on as a reference guide for an intermediate to experienced developer. Everyone in the dev team got some use out of this as a reference - good to have in the team.

Good Book For Beginners

This book is a good book for beginners who need an introduction to object programming as well as Cache Objects. This book was very helpful to me as I am a beginning programmer in both Cache Objects and Objects in general. I would recommend this book. If one is not new to objects but new to Cache Object Script they can skip the introduction to objects section and proceed with the Cache Object Script section. It is a good reference on the Cache Object script language. The only thing is it would have been good if there were a bit more examples in the Cache Object script and Cache Object sections. Some programming assignments to do on one's own and an answer sheet in the back of the book to these assignments would have been good as well. It would have given one a chance to put the concepts into practice themselves and then check their answers to see if they were on the right tract. At any rate I think this is a very good book.

Very useful, ...and a bit too pretty

Intersystems' Caché Postrelational Database is a relatively little known but very powerful & extremely scalable database engine, that has very few -if any- serious competitors in that features/price/performance group, especially after Intersystem changed their licensing policy recently. The book gives detailed information about Caché's way of handling all major database functions, explains in a nice manner how to get it up & running ( at least on Windows this is actually so easy that it's almost not necessary to waste many words about it), provides a good introduction into Caché's specific as well as general object-oriented programming but stays a bit short on webapplications and information/assistance about errors & error-codes. It almost appears that the authors had a deadline to meet, and finished the web-part a bit too fast.However, this sounds worse than it really is: Caché's online tutorial and documentation fill this gap, so to start, to learn more and to have a very nice, very compact language reference in your bag or next to your keyboard, this book is probably the best thing to have, especially in conjunction with the online materials. The authors always keep their focus on what's necessary, it's easy to understand without simplifying the subject. In good Springer-Verlag manner it's slightly overpriced, but its size, layout and paper is very nice; too pretty almost: You certainly don't want to write notes into it, so you might end up with lots of Post-Its between the pages. Unlike most other programming languages and databases this book prooves that you don't need 12 different 800-pages manuals, tutorials, references etc to accomplish one thing. In my opinion, besides the performance and ability to easily integrate with almost all other languages and platforms, this is one of the best aspects of Intersystems Caché.