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Methods and tools for integrating database systems and object-oriented programming systems

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Advances in Computing and Information — ICCI '91 (ICCI 1991)

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The object-oriented paradigm has gained rapid acceptance as the basis for the next generation of database systems. Yet many of the fundamental concepts behind the object-oriented approach are in conflict with the traditional ideas of database management. In this paper we investigate the similarities and differences between the relational database approach and the object-oriented programming language Smalltalk. We develop an object-oriented data model with abstract classes, and discuss the techniques for translating requests into a relational language.

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  1. Department of Mathematical Sciences, Loyola University, 70118, New Orleans, LA

    Bogdan Czejdo

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Houston, 77204-3475, Houston, TX

    Malcolm Taylor

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Frank Dehne Frantisek Fiala Waldemar W. Koczkodaj

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Czejdo, B., Taylor, M. (1991). Methods and tools for integrating database systems and object-oriented programming systems. In: Dehne, F., Fiala, F., Koczkodaj, W.W. (eds) Advances in Computing and Information — ICCI '91. ICCI 1991. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 497. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-54029-6_170

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