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REACH is an active OODBMS that was developed as a platform to experiment both with the issues arising from the implementation of advanced active functionalities, and as a platform for the development of applications that are potential beneficiaries of active database technology. To achieve the former, we chose an experimental OODBMS, Texas Instruments’ OpenOODB, for which the source code was available to us, and tried to implement the full range of active functionality with multiple coupling modes, a complete event algebra, full transaction management, and support features, such as garbage collection of events. To achieve the latter goal, a rich set of tools was implemented to facilitate the use of the system by application programmers. This chapter gives a brief overview of the REACH system implemented on OpenOODB. Currently, efforts are underway to port the REACH functionality to ObjectStore.
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Zimmermann, J., Buchmann, A.P. (1999). REACH. In: Paton, N.W. (eds) Active Rules in Database Systems. Monographs in Computer Science. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8656-6_14
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