Designing Data-Intensive Web Applications

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 authorsall internationally-known database researcherspresent 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.

Stefano Ceri is a full professor of Database Systems at the Politecnico di Milano. He was the Coordinating Program Chair of VLDB 2001 in Rome Piero Fraternali is a full professor of Software Engineering at Politecnico di Milano Aldo Bongio is the chief architect of WebRatio Site Development Studio Marco Brambilla is a Ph.D. student in Computer and Automation Engineering at Politecnico di Milano Sara Comai is an assistant professor at the Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnico di Milano, where she teaches computer graphics and computer science fundamentals Maristella Matera is an assistant professor at the Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnico di Milano, where she teaches computer science fundamentals