Object Database Development: Concepts and Principles

Object-oriented database development is one of the best ways to build software for many advanced applications. In this book Professor Embley shows how to model an application and systematically transform an application model into code for a database system. Aimed at both university students and sophisticated practicing professionals, Object Database Development presents the fundamental concepts and principles needed for developing advanced database applications, and it shows how to apply these principles successfully. This book emphasizes application development for object-relational, object-oriented, and active databases as well as for relational databases, making it suitable for both introductory and advanced courses on database application development. FEATURES Takes an object-oriented approach to modeling and developing database applications. Provides a seamless way to move from analysis through specification and design into implementation. Focuses on concepts and principles that provide a sound theoretical foundation for database application development. Presents several case studies (Oracle, UniSQL, O2, ObjectStore, and Ode), that show how to turn theory into practice.

Dr. David W. Embley is a professor in the Department of Computer Science at Brigham Young University, where he has taught graduate and undergraduate courses in database systems and theory since 1982. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois. Dr.Embley is a co-author of Object-Oriented System Analysis (Prentice-Hall, 1992) and has published a number of articles on conceptual modeling, database query languages, and database design theory.

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