Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 201 pages
- Published by: Springer
- Edition: 1st Edition August 25, 1995
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 3540600639
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-3540600633
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Book Dimensions:
9.6 x 6.2 x 0.4 inches
- Weighs: 11.2 ounces
Product 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.