Title :
Object exchange service for an object-oriented database system
Author :
Pathak, Girish ; Joseph, John ; Ford, Steve
Author_Institution :
Texas Instrum. Inc., Dallas, TX, USA
Abstract :
An object exchange service (OXS) and an external object representation (EXTOR) are described in the context of a distributed object-oriented database. EXTOR is the common representation that facilitates the sharing of information among a network of machines. The aim is to represent complex structured information in an efficient external form and to provide maximal sharing of information among computing sessions. OXS is a service which, together with the concepts of object boundary, global objects, and object closure, provides the exchange of information using EXTOR. A brief description is provided of the distributed object-oriented system that utilizes this service, the performance results for OXS, and the future directions for the design of generalized object exchange services in heterogeneous computing environments
Keywords :
distributed databases; object-oriented programming; complex structured information; distributed object-oriented database; external object representation; global objects; heterogeneous computing environments; object boundary; object closure; object exchange service; object-oriented database system; Computer science; Context-aware services; Database systems; Distributed databases; Encoding; Instruments; Object oriented databases; Programming profession; Transaction databases; Workstations;
Conference_Titel :
Data Engineering, 1989. Proceedings. Fifth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Los Angeles, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-1915-5
DOI :
10.1109/ICDE.1989.47197
