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Integrating Distribution and Mobility into an Object-Oriented Database

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Most distributed database systems of today are build around a client-server paradigm. Nowadays development of distributed systems technology has gone beyond client-server systems. Especially for distributed object-oriented systems, many promising concepts have been proposed and evaluated. One of them are mobile objects. This idea has proved to be of great importance for applications that need fine grained tuning at run time. Mechanical engineering applications in the area of simultaneous/concurrent engineering call for support of this kind, as the structure and distribution of application needs often is not known when setting up the underlying database system. As on the other hand, object-oriented databases are tailored to handle the complex entities of engineering applications, integrating mobile objects into such databases is one step on the way to qualify them as a company-wide information backbone. In this paper an approach to integrate mobility in an existing object-oriented client-server system is presented. We concentrate on object management and on architectural aspects besides presenting the seamless integration of the necessary extensions to the object model in a strongly typed language.

This work was partially supported by the German Research Council (Deutch Forschungsgemeinschaft DFG) under grant SFB 346 Project A6.

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  1. Institute of Telematics, University of Karlsruhe, 76128, Karlsruhe, Germany

    Dietmar A. Kottmann & Ludwig Keller

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Kottmann, D.A., Keller, L. (1995). Integrating Distribution and Mobility into an Object-Oriented Database. In: Patel, D., Sun, Y., Patel, S. (eds) OOIS’94. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3016-1_28

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