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Originally published at Internet.comI recently was asked, then asked again, then asked yet again to review an object-oriented application development computer book. I was asked to review the book by a company whose product is covered in the book rather than by the publishing company or the author. I don't think they realized how much of a critic I am...
While the book, Object-Oriented Application Development Using the Caché Postrelational Database, is not a book I would normally buy, I must confess that I was surprised about how much it caught my interest in a positive manner.
In this review I'm going to address a couple of different items. These are items I look at when reviewing books. These are: * The technical Content * The packaging / pricing * The "Gut" Feel
I'll cover each of these in the following sections and then conclude with my overall opinion.
The Technical Content
I was not sure what this book was focused on when I first was told about it. The title was a mouth full - Object-Oriented Application Development Using the Caché Postrelational Database. Was it an Object-Oriented Application Development book as the title implied or was it a Caché book?
Because OO was first in the title, I assumed the focus was on OO. Wrong, err, at least somewhat wrong. This book could have easily been called "Developing with Caché" because that is where the focus is. This begs the question, what is Caché? Caché is a postrelational database, which loosely translated means an "object" database. Because most people won't know what Caché is, it is a good thing the title tells us. Because it is an "object" database, it makes since that you would do object-oriented development if you use it...
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