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- From: jcrw@fmg.bt.co.uk (Jeremy Wilson)
- Newsgroups: comp.object
- Subject: Re: OO & transaction handling systems
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.095917.775@fmg.bt.co.uk>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 09:59:17 GMT
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- David Edwards /DP (ded@kps.se) wrote:
- :
- : Hello.
- :
- : Being a neophyte to OO design & programing, I am wondering how
- : suitable OO based systems are for handling large amounts of data in
- : the form of transactions. The system we are dealing with today is data
- : collection and invoicing for large numbers of customers. (150.000
- : customers billing 1,000,000 transactions / month).
-
- : 1) Am I breaking new ground here if I jump into OO?
- : Does anybody have any experience out there with similar kinds of
- : systems that are OO?
-
-
- No! You are not breaking new ground but I guess the ground is still not that
- much cultivated.
-
- There is an interesting article on OO and Transaction Processing by
- John Tibbetts of Kinexis in OOPSLA 91, Phoenix, Arizona, 6-11 October,
- which deals with precisely the kind of issues you are raising.
-
- There is quite a bit of work going on in this area. If you want a good book
- on OO databases, a good start is ``OO databases'' by John Hughes, published
- by Prentice-Hall.
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