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Object-management machines: Concept and implementation

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Journal of Systems Integration

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The software development process deals with a wide variety of documents. For the preparation of these documents, as well as for their maintenance, appropriate data management support is requested, resulting in the coexistence of multiple object management systems within a single, advanced software development environment. In order to homogenize data management in software development environments we present the object management machine (OMM) concept as an integration framework for preexisting data management systems. An object management machine enables the creation of uniform access patterns to different data management systems, including the query interface and transaction processing. The concept is being developed in the framework of the EUREKA project ESF (EUREKA Software Factory)1. To make it operational we demonstrate the suitability of the MUSE multidatabase integrator as an implementation framework for the Object Management Machine concept.

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Holtkamp, B., Weber, H. Object-management machines: Concept and implementation. Journal of Systems Integration 1, 367–389 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02262721

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