BCS Object-Oriented Programming and Systems Specialist Group

6.30 pm Wednesday 3rd March 1999 
OOPS-128- Why use an Object Database for Java Development?
Dave Winstone, ODI

Venue- IBM Centre South Bank, 76 Upper Ground, London SE1, next to the 
National
Theatre and The London Television Centre. 
www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll?grid2map?X=531250&Y=180250

Admission Free - No pre-registration required	 


Synopsis-

The presentation will start by positioning what an Object Database is and 
how ODBs
have developed. We will then compare Object Databases to Relational 
Databases, by
looking at their storage models, and their process architectures. 

We will then work through a short example using Java to read and write to 
Object
Design's ObjectStore Database Management System. The example will cover
Transactions, Object Persistence, Navigation, Collections and Queries. 

The purpose of the presentation is to provide an understanding of the 
architecture of
an Object Database and why an ODB would be used when developing a Java
Application. 

Dave Winstone is a Systems Engineer with Object Design (UK). His role is 
to
educate people as to what Object Databases are, and how they could be 
used in
specific environments. Previously, he worked for SELECT Software as 
pre-sales for
their Object Oriented Modeling Tool, having come from a programming 
environment
using C++, Delphi, VB and relational databases in a software house. 

FOLLOWING MEETING-
6.30 pm Wednesday 7th April 1999 
OOPS-129- Why tasks aren't objects and how to integrate them in your 
design
Speaker- Alvery Grazebrook, ARTiSAN Software Tools
Venue- tba

OOPS Meetings Programme Committee-
Brian Saxby, Kingston University [[log in to unmask]]; 
Hedley Apperly, SELECT Software Tools, plc [[log in to unmask]]

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