Good design pattern book in data access !!

I am in the process of writing a thesis proposal that utilizing JDBC and TableModeler to access various database platforms as a prototype.

While prototyping the model, I encountered a lot of consideration of what is the best approach for certain implementation (mainly on JDBC). While looking into a few of designing books, I found this Data Access Patterns book that fits into my research needs. I have read other book such as Designing Flexible Object Oriented System with UML and not able to apply the concept or see solution in it. It is simply a conceptual book. No practical examples at all.

Mr. Nock has explained the design patterns very clearly in each chapter by using JDBC as a media. The examples are very easy to understand as compared to Design Patterns Explained. I am not able to understand codes that implementing graphics in that book.

Mr. Nock addressed the pros and cons of the patterns. Many techie books do not even bother to talk about pros and cons.

The author has chosen the right title for the book, I realized that many times author received a poor rating because reader expect different contents based on the title of the book.

The feature I liked the most - the ¡§Applicability¡¨ section on each chapter. Unlike other patterns book, the author explains the concept and gives example of "what" and "when" to use certain design pattern. This section is pretty much the answer for my thesis obstacles. The answer is in this book!!

Minor typos do exist such as in page 390 roll back instead of rollback.

In concurrency chapter, author may have mis-used the term of updates locking. It should be Lost Updates instead of Missing updates. Concurrency chapter looks like UDB Lock Concurrency architecture.

Additional note - would like to see the quality aspect in each of the patterns.

Overall, the book is very well structured, explained and thoughtful.

Thank you Mr. Nock !! This is a perfect book for my thesis.

Looking forward to read your future publish.

Regards,

EQ

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