Surfing an ODBMS (maintaining WWW documents with O/sub 2/)

Abstract

Deals with the idea of an object-oriented DBMS (O/sub 2/) working as an Internet server. The approach introduced offers fine-grained storage and retrieval of World Wide Web (WWW) documents, providing sophisticated document maintenance, supporting referential integrity, document integration, integration with application objects, access control and versioning. In contrast to comparable systems, it acts transparently to the WWW users, i.e. without using proprietary query languages or protocols. While achieving the full benefits of a modern document repository, it keeps the ease of the traditional file system it replaces.