Multimedia

The Jasmine Object Database: Multimedia Applications for the Web

Format: Paperback
Author: Setrag Khoshafian
ReleaseDate: August, 1998
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Pub
Rating:

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

Wait for a better book
I bought it because it was the first one I could find on Jasmine. I was very disappointed with this book. 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.