The most prominent Web applications in use today are data‎-intensive‎.‎ Scores of database management systems across the Internet access and maintain large amounts of structured data for e‎-commerce‎,‎ on‎-line trading‎,‎ banking‎,‎ digital libraries‎,‎ and other high‎-volume sites‎.‎Developing and maintaining these data‎-intensive applications is an especially complex‎,‎ multi‎-disciplinary activity‎,‎ requiring all the tools and techniques that software engineering can provide‎.‎ This book represents a breakthrough for Web application developers‎.‎ Using hundreds of illustrations and an elegant intuitive modeling language‎,‎ the authors‎-all internationally‎-known database researchers‎-present a methodology that fully exploits the conceptual modeling approach of software engineering‎,‎ from idea to application‎.‎ Readers will learn not only how to harness the design technologies of relational databases for use on the Web‎,‎ but also how to transform their conceptual designs of data‎-intensive Web applications into effective software components‎.‎

• Author‎:‎ Stefano Ceri‎,‎ Piero Fraternali
• Publisher‎:‎ Morgan Kaufmann
• ISBN‎:‎ 9781558608436