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

"This is an excellent book. It is relevant, readable, timely, and technically accurate. The author has a good handle on what is important to the industry, separating the hype from the practical solutions."
-Rick Cattell

"Peter's book is rich with code examples that will help you understand exactly how to follow his footsteps to get a working system."
-Mary Loomis

Building Scalable Database Applications: Object-Oriented Design, Architectures, and Implementation is a comprehensive and authoritative guide to building client/server applications by developing a stable and reusable business model. The business and database models illustrated in this book both address the unique challenge of manipulating object storage and retrieval from a developer's point of view.

Software engineers and programmers need this information to lead their development teams toward businesswide distributed software systems. This book demonstrates the pragmatic approach of integrating systems that are currently in use into a cost-effective and time-saving object-oriented system. The approach allows for the business model and the database schema to operate independently so that they can evolve individually, allowing them to be easily reused and maintained.

Highlights include:

• llustration of the design for reusable business components
• Maximization of reuse and openness
• Application of inheritance techniques to database design
• Migration from legacy and relational systems to object orientation without discarding your investments

This is the first book to thoroughly cover scalable database applications; Building Scalable Database Applications focuses on building independent models that are free from all database and user-interface aspects.

Peter Heinckiens currently conducts his research at the University of Ghent, where he is responsible for coordinating the strategic planning and deployment of software technology throughout the administrative section of the university. He holds the Belgian equivalent of an M.S. in electrical engineering.

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