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Metaclasses and Their Application: Data Model Tailoring and Database Integration

By Wolfgang Klas , Michael Schrefl (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year
1995
ISBN
3540600639, 9783540600633
DOI
10.1007/BFb0027185
LCC
QA76.64 .K53 1995
Open Library ID
OL796349M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
13 MB (14139334 bytes)
Series
Lecture Notes in Computer Science 943
Edition
1
Pages
210\211
Time added
2011-04-11 19:55:47
CompilersDatabase Management; Programming LanguagesInterpreters; Data Structures; Artificial Intellig

Description

Conventional object-oriented data models are closed: although they allow users to define application-specific classes, they usually come with a fixed set of modelling primitives. This constitutes a major problem, as different application domains, e.g. database integration or multimedia, need special support. Using an extended metaclass concept, this book provides for the solution of this problem a simple but extendible open object-oriented data model, a so-called RISC model. By introducing the basic concepts of the open object-oriented database management system VODAK, it demonstrates how the extended metaclass concept can be integrated homogeneously into object-oriented data models.

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