Object Persistence: Beyond Object Oriented Databases

For years, object-oriented database vendors have insisted that object-oriented databases are the only place object data can be stored. This book shatters that myth. The true object-oriented databases of the future are the traditional databases of today.

This book is an up close and personal guide to the Object Management Group's new CORBA standard for the Persistence Object Service (POS) and the IBM implementation in SOMobject 3.0. It is written by one of the chief architects of that standard and the lead developer of the IBM implementation.

This book describes the fascinating history of the POS standard, a history that reads like a spy novel. It describes the overall OMG object model including descriptions of all the major OMG services related to Persistence. It describes the interfaces of Persistence, the various application models for Persistence, the responsibilities of the object implementor, and describes how different datastores can be plugged into the Persistence Framework. It gives and extensive introduction to the IBM SOM technology.

Whether you are a systems analyst, application programmer, or a database developer, this book gives you all the background you need to understand this exciting new technology.