Object exchange service for an object-oriented database system

Author

Pathak, Girish ; Joseph, John ; Ford, Steve

Author_Institution

Texas Instrum. Inc., Dallas, TX, USA

fYear

1989

fDate

6-10 Feb 1989

Firstpage

27

Lastpage

34

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Data Engineering, 1989. Proceedings. Fifth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Los Angeles, CA

Print_ISBN

0-8186-1915-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICDE.1989.47197

Filename

47197