A programmer's guide to the IBM Object Management Group's new CORBA standard for the Persistence Object Service (POS) and the implementation in SOMobject 3.0. Sessions, one of the chief architects and developers of the IBM object database implementations, describes the OMG object model and services related to Persistence, interfaces, and various application models, including how different datastores can be plugged into the Persistence Framework. Lacks a bibliography. Includes examples. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
Roger Sessions has been closely associated with object persistence for many years. He is the author of two other books and many articles, and has spoken at dozens of conferences around the world about object persistence and CORBA technology. He is widely considered the world's leading expert on distributed object programming with IBM's implementation of CORBA.