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The central theme of this paper is the friction encountered when using a traditional object-oriented (O-O) language in the database arena. A series of (open) database issues is given for which the object-oriented paradigm does not provide an elegant solution. Following we describe a refinement of the O-O concepts which emphasizes the dynamic classification of objects through its evolving properties rather than the origine of its instantiation method. Such an approach is called object-centered and is the basis for organizing the database in the programming language Godai. The complementary aspect explored is to organize the processing around active agents, called guardians, which are high-level declarative process descriptions which algorithmically react to states (changes) of the database.
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Kersten, M.L., Schippers, F.H. (1991). Godal: An Object-Centered Database Language. In: Dittrich, K.R., Dayal, U., Buchmann, A.P. (eds) On Object-Oriented Database Systems. Topics in Information Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-84374-7_9
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