object databases

While the author does make an attempt to be clear, I think sometimes he talks himself around the direct point. This book ends up being confusing and long winded at times. Object-Oriented Data Structures Using Java, is a much more clear and concise book on the same subject.

While the book does cover several basic concepts it does not spend enought time on algorithms. Many of the code examples contain error and are poorly written. If you need a datastructures/algorithms book you would be much better off with algorithms in c++ by sedgewick.

The author does a good job describing algorithms and tools to use. However, after downloading the code from his web site and compiling the source code, less than one half of it worked on a Windows 2000 box without modification + two class files can't be re-created because of missing source code (Excellent book for learning algorithms and code debugging).