A business-oriented, practitioner's guide to creating an object-oriented DBMS for the real world. It covers all the fundamental building blocks of object-oriented databases, detailing how they work and how programs and objects interact. It's packed with proven techniques for modeling and designing effective systems, including many coding examples.

Software product lines are emerging as a critical new paradigm for software development. Product lines are enabling organizations to achieve impressive time-to-market gains and cost reductions. With the increasing number of product lines and product-line researchers and practitioners, the time is right for a comprehensive examination of the issues surrounding the software product line approach. The Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University is proud to sponsor the first conference on this important subject. This book comprises the proceedings of the First Software Product Line Conference (SPLC1), held August 28-31, 2000, in Denver, Colorado, USA. The twenty-seven papers of the conference technical program present research results and experience reports that cover all aspects of software product lines. Topics include business issues, enabling technologies, organizational issues, and life-cycle issues. Emphasis is placed on experiences in the development and fielding of product lines of complex systems, especially those that expose problems in the design, development, or evolution of software product lines. The book will be essential reading for researchers and practitioners alike.

This volume conveys the important facts and concepts business professionals need in order to understand the role of object databases in today's rapidly evolving computing environments. Covering all aspects of the essentials of object database technology without requiring advanced technical knowledge, this book makes an excellent introductory reference for database experts and non-experts alike.

Unlike most books on Object-Oriented development which concentrate almost exclusively on the methods and techniques, this book places OO in the context of the business world. Useful advice from practitioners is provided as well as descriptions of some of the new tools available.