Newsletter :: July 2010

• Join us at ICOODB 2010: ICOODB 2010 is approaching and we'll be there helping promote object database technology. Please join us!
• db4o on Kiwidoc: db4o javadocs are now searchable in Kiwidoc which as of now is tracking 626 libraries, 157 bundles, 7152 packages and 104448 classes.
• db4o enables Scala business framework: Uniscala is a set of Scala libraries for developing business applications. Uniscala's top priority is to support and provide the Uniscala Granite wep application framework and the upcoming Uniscala Topaz identity management application. Uniscala includes several db4o utilities that work flawlessly on Scala!! db4o is being used as the primary database in this work-in-progress Scala/DB4O/Wicket/JQuery web framework project which is stringly influenced by Zope/Plone.
• Using db4o in an Android application: Here's a short article with code snippets by Damasia Maneiro who's working on an Android app that will use db4o.
• ODBMS.ORG New Lecture Notes: ODBMS.ORG just published two excellent, up to date and complete set of lecture notes on Object Databases.

Versant - News from the Base Camp
from Versant Website

• New Whitepaper: Objects, Databases and the Myth of Serialization - Authors quite commonly—and incorrectly—refer to the process of serialization as part of what is happening when an object database stores an object or object graph. This white paper debunks that misperception, and sets the record straight about the efficiency of object databases as brought about by the avoidance of serialization.

Kudos of the Month
from the db4o Kudos Blog

"No joy with EntityFramework, Code first CTP and SQLite. Time to look at db4o."
— Rob Henry

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The db4objects team.

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