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San Francisco, CA. June 5, 2001 - THOUGHT
Inc., the market and technological leader in Object to Relational
Mapping OPTIMIZED for EJB, today announced exciting advances in
Transparent Object Persistence features in CocoBase Enterprise O/R
for use with EJB and Java Classes. Persisting complex data object
graphs in both a local and distributed environment is greatly simplified
to a few lines of code. This is accomplished dynamically thus not
polluting the object graph allowing for optimal continued reuse.
Ward Mullins CTO, of Thought Inc. summed
up the company's philosophy in a news conference today in this way,
"To the Object Model do no harm."
It is important to compare and contrast this development with existing
systems such as ODMG and JDO. These specifications say that the
APIs are open, however, in order to achieve a practical implementation
the result becomes proprietary and vendor specific. This means that
either the class must be rewritten by hand or rewritten by some
tool to be compatible with their systems. The increased complexity
and developer time to create and maintain such a large code base
can quickly become unreasonable.
CocoBase's architecture by contrast doesn't require CocoBase code
to be inserted into the objects or the object graph. Therefore reprocessing
of source code or byte code in order to persist the objects does
not occur. Instead, the CocoBase product can persist an entire graph
of objects created elsewhere with no changes to either the object
source or binary code.
Both ODMG & JDO require changes to the source or binary code
of the objects. These approaches are both unnecessary and often
increase error-prone code to an unacceptable level. Many consider
the designs of ODMG and JDO to be counter to Java's open access
- cross platform - component reuse design intent. While CocoBase's
architecture makes java classes vendor neutral, the other approaches
deeply tie the source or binary code to only one vendor. Their system
creates a java class hierarchy that once processed and integrated
by one vendor becomes completely incompatible with another.
This latest generation of CocoBase's technology can identify 'copies'
of objects and parts of object graphs, and manage them in both a
local and distributed environment. Entire graphs of objects can
be copied to some remote machine, manipulated and then processed
in some form to be returned synchronized with the original and the
copy. CocoBase, using this facility, can manage virtually any serializable
object graph.
About CocoBase Enterprise O/R
CocoBase Enterprise O/R provides EJB developers templates for Container
and Bean Managed Persistence that are optimized for scaling and
performance with full support for EJB 1.0, 1.1 and the anticipated
2.0. The generated CMP, BMP, JSP code, like most of CocoBase Enterprise
O/R, can be extended or changed based on the customers unique requirements
without having to involve costly consulting. This fine grained Object
to Relational mapping and dynamic code generation provides the developer
consistent, high-end database access across any standard EJB Server
with the ability to manage complex relationships between Entity
beans and Non-Entity beans, and access to any standard Relational
database.
About Thought Inc.
Established in 1993, THOUGHT Inc. is the market leader in Java-based
object-oriented Mapping Middleware technology. THOUGHT Inc. has
been shipping CocoBase, the patented flagship product and the industry's
most advanced framework for accessing legacy data in a distributed
application since March of 1997. CocoBase is a standards based product
relying on such technologies as RMI, CORBA, JDBC, EJB, etc. Thought
Inc. makes its home in San Francisco supporting customers worldwide
in the United States, Europe, Japan, Asia and Australia. CocoBase
and THOUGHT Inc. are registered trademarks of THOUGHT Inc. CocoBase
technology is based on US patent #5857197. More information on THOUGHT
Inc. can be found online at www.thoughtinc.com.
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