Java RAMBO Manifesto: RAM-based Objects, Prevayler, and Raw Speed [Paperback]

Peter Wayner (Author)

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Publication Date: September 30, 2003

"Java Programmers of the World Unite!" begins this self-proclaimed revolutionary book with only half a wink. "You've got nothing to lose but the chains of method calls through endless layers of APIs until you reach the database!" If you're a Java programmer bowing down before the puffed-up majesty of the stumbling, tottering SQL database, read this book and speed up your applications from 3 to 3000 times. Stop struggling with acronyms like JDO, JDBC, J2EE, or EJB and live in pure object-oriented harmony. Seize control of the objects again and stop reshaping and reforming the data to make it fit in the decades old vision of SQL. Working with pure Java is faster, simpler and just as safe as the old regime.

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About the Author

Peter Wayner is the author of more than a dozen books including the radical Free for All, the aristocracy-unsettling Disappearing Cryptography, the prolitarian-friendly Translucent Databases, Policing Online Games, and the capitalist expose Digital Cash. He is occasionally an contributor to the New York Times, BYTE, Salon and others.

Product Details

• Paperback: 90 pages
• Publisher: Flyzone Press; 1st edition (September 30, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0967584434
• ISBN-13: 978-0967584430
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,442,646 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Great Book!, November 4, 2003

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This review is from: Java RAMBO Manifesto: RAM-based Objects, Prevayler, and Raw Speed (Paperback)

For some developers, Relational Data Base Management Systems are unquestionable. For other developers, their chains of method calls and multiple API layers are cumbersome and slow. For the latter, there is the possibility of keeping all objects in RAM and log modifications for the sake of data integrity. This is what this book is about: how to create a persistence architecture that relies solely on objects, with the help of log files and the serialization of data to binary files.

The book goes over basically all matters related to the use of serialization to persist objects: from an initial discussion on RAM based data collections to basic serialization techniques in Java, from Commands and Transactions to XML export and mirroring. It also takes a close look on Prevayler, the open source project that actually concentrates efforts on creating a framework for transparent Java Persistence using serialization. With a nice and straightforward language, Peter Wayner, a well-known author of books on security and databases, shows all the necessary steps to create such frameworks and - without hiding its shortcomings - smartly comments the positive side of this technique: a single, object based logical model, simplicity, and high performance.