The Jasmine Object Database: Multimedia Applications for the Web [Paperback]

Setrag Khoshafian (Author), Surapol Dasananda (Author), Norayr Minassian (Author), Norayr Minassian (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1998

Jasmine is a new object-oriented database for Intranet/Internet multimedia applications developed by Fujitsu. It is the first and only industrial strength, object-oriented database that features a multimedia, Internet/Intranet-enabled application development systems. This book provides a comprehensive overview of a object-oriented database application development with Jasmine. Complete component and practical examples are provided for each Jasmine feature. Features: * This is the first and only authoritative and officially endorsed publication on Jasmine * Complete source for developers and their managers who need to understand both he strengths and limitations of Jasmine * Includes an evaluation copy of Jasmine Software Development Kit and code examples in Jasmine

Product Details

• Paperback: 472 pages
• Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Pub (August 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1558604944
• ISBN-13: 978-1558604940
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.3 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,882,395 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Setrag is one of the earliest pioneers and recognized experts in Business Process Management. He has been a senior executive for the past 15 years. Currently he is Vice President of BPM Technology at Pegasystems Inc. He is the strategic BPM technology and thought leader at Pega. He is involved in numerous initiatives, including BPM Technology Directions, Enterprise Content Management and BPM; Enterprise Service Bus and BPM; Collaboration and BPM; Enterprise Performance Management and BPM; Service Oriented Architectures (SOA); and BPM Maturity Models. He is a frequent speaker and presenter in international conferences.

Previously he was the Senior VP of technology at Savvion, Inc. He invented and designed a powerful process meta-model and led the implementation for one of the earliest distributed Web-centric BPM systems, involving human as well as system participants through CORBA components.
In addition to BPM he has done extensive research and implementations of Object Oriented technologies, Groupware, and Advanced Database Management Systems. He was the inventor of the Intelligent SQL object-relational database. He also led the architecture, design, and implementation of one of the earliest distributed object-oriented database systems while working at MCC.

Setrag is the lead author of nine books and has numerous publications in business as well as technical periodicals. He has given seminars and presentations in conferences, to technical and business communities. Setrag has also been a professor for the past 20 years. He has taught graduate and undergraduate courses in several universities around the world ' where he provides his students a unique combination of academic depth combined with industry experience. Setrag holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin ' Madison.

His latest book is Service Oriented Enterprises, Service Oriented Enterprises, Auerbach Publications, ISBN 0849353602.

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Wait for a better book, March 15, 1999

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This review is from: The Jasmine Object Database: Multimedia Applications for the Web (Paperback)

I was very disappointed with this book. I bought it because it was the first one I could find on Jasmine. It seems the authors found being the first more important than being useful. The online help provided with Jasmine much more lucid. The writing in this book is dense and obtuse. This book begins (like many) with a summary of OO principles and concepts. It is the worst introduction to OO concepts I've ever seen. A person with no prior OO experience would not grasp anything useful from the first several chapters. I found my eyes glazing over and had to re-read everything. Another big disapointment for me was the lack of depth on some subjects. The whole subject of database administration using the GUI provided by Jasmine is given 12 pages! You can guess how helpful that 'in-depth' analysis is...The authors throw example code around without really elaborating on it. No attempt is made to help the user incrementally build a working application. The whole book is nothing more than definitions of concepts without making an attempt to integrate those concepts into something useful. This is a book you will read once (maybe) and never refer to again.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not an application development reference, March 31, 1999

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This review is from: The Jasmine Object Database: Multimedia Applications for the Web (Paperback)

It is an excellent book to introducing object oriented database and the capabilities of Jasmine. Most of the material is conceptual and general. It is not enough for application developers.