A client-server database environment for supporting multimedia applications

Developing and using applications often involve a group working on a network to retrieve information and create views containing multimedia objects. The goal of this paper is to describe a project which aimed at providing a client/server database environment for supporting the development of various multimedia applications. The design architecture, process model and issues related to physical implementation are presented. Using an object-oriented approach, a prototyped distributed multimedia database system has been developed on a 100 Mbit/s FDDI LAN