A programming language structure wherein the data and their associated processing ("methods") are defined as self-contained entities called "objects." Becoming popular in the early 1990s and the norm ...

This post is one of a series that introduces the fundamentals of NOSQL databases, and their role in Big Data Analytics. What is an object-oriented Database? An object oriented database manages objects ...

If you want to understand your technology strategy options, my usual advice is that you should study Microsoft, Oracle and IBM. There’s hardly a software product category in which at least one of them ...

Using a relational database engine in a Java application requires that you map your application’s object model to fields within database tables. An order-entry application, for example, will consist ...

Like it or not, data is an integral part of any application, even cool object-oriented ones. Everything stops at the persistence layer, where Java developers traditionally have had to write complex ...

Dan Weinreb was one of the founders of Symbolics, as well as of object-oriented DBMS pioneer Object Design (now absorbed into Progress Software). He’s working again in LISP development, at a very ...

One of the easiest ways to understand what is meant by ‘object oriented’, is to define what it is not. Before Object Oriented Programming (OOP) programs were written an imperative way, essentially a ...