Object-Oriented Application Development Using the Cache Postrelational Database

Nowadays, newly developed software is often already obsolete by the time it is introduced. The object-oriented concept provides a solution to this "crisis": applications are modeled as software objects that describe both the properties and the behavior of real world objects. Such objects are encapsulated and hide the inner complexity behind a public interface. This allows objects to be used in a wide range of program packages without the internal realization needing to be known. - The connection of object-oriented modeled applications with a database places special demands on the DBMS and the development environment when you want to avoid the usual performance and semantics losses. This book provides a detailed description of the object model of the Caché postrelational database. In addition, the reader is guided step-by-step through the development of a first postrelational application. The accompanying CD-ROM contains the complete associated software.