Metaclasses and Their Application: Data Model Tailoring and Database Integration / Edition 1
by Wolfgang Klas, Michael SchreflISBN-10: 3540600639
ISBN-13: 9783540600633
Pub. Date: 08/25/1995
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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
Overview
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.
Product Details
- ISBN-13:
- 9783540600633
- Publisher:
- Springer Berlin Heidelberg
- Publication date:
- 08/25/1995
- Series:
- Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series , #943
- Edition description:
- 1995
- Pages:
- 210
- Product dimensions:
- 9.21(w) x 6.14(h) x 0.47(d)
Table of Contents
Fundamental principles of object-oriented systems.- Basic concepts for metaclasses in the object-oriented data model.- Semantic data modelling.- Metaclasses for semantic data modelling.- Object class definition by generalization.- Metaclasses for object class definition by generalization.- Metaclasses in other object-oriented systems.- Conclusion.
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