Apress The Definitive Guide to db4o

Product Description This is the first book to cover db4o programming in comprehensive detail. Readers are briefed on all topics necessary to begin using it in production environments, including installation and configuration, querying and managing objects, performing transactions, and data replication. Review From the reviews: "The book is a guide to db4o, a tool for building object database management systems. … This well-designed book covers the programming techniques with Java 1.4 and 1.5 and .NET 1.1 and 2.0; the authors also show that db4o supports both Java and C#. The concepts of object-oriented programming are covered well. … The position of db4o in the world of relational data is discussed throughout the book. This makes for interesting reading." (S. Balaraman, ACM Computing Reviews, Vol. 49 (2), February, 2008) About the Author Jim Paterson is a lecturer in computing at Glasgow Caledonian University in the U.K. He specializes in web development and object-oriented software, and has a particular interest in using new tools in a teaching context. He has a Ph.D. in physics from Glasgow University, and worked previously as a research physicist and as a software engineer.