A seamless integration in object-oriented database systems

Abstract

A discussion is given on the use of object-oriented database systems for supporting database applications such as office information systems, knowledge-based systems, engineering design databases, (computer-aided design/manufacturing), hypermedia and software engineering databases. Typically, the research on object-oriented database systems has been addressed from two different disciplines: the programming language discipline and the database discipline. The author discusses his motivations from each of the two disciplines and then explains how they are combined into an integrated framework.<>