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Language and Methodology for Object-Oriented Database Environments

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Data Types and Persistence

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This paper describes an object-oriented database language being implemented at Brown for use on workstations, and demonstrates its use in defining an object-oriented programming environment. The database language is illustrated by specifications of the UNIX file system, Ada packages, program structure, and multiple views of program modules. Each example illustrates a different feature of object-oriented programming methodology. Collectively the examples serve both as an introduction to our database language and as a tutorial for object-oriented system programming.

This work was supported in part by IBM Yorktown Heights and in part by ONR under Contract N00014-83-K-0146 and DARPA under order No: 4786.

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  1. Brown University, USA

    Stanley B. Zdonik & Peter Wegner

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  1. Stanley B. Zdonik
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  1. Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, 14, Lilybank Gardens, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, Scotland

    Malcolm P. Atkinson

  2. Department of Computer Information Science, The Moore School of Electrical Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 19104-3897, USA

    Peter Buneman

  3. Department of Computational Science, University of St. Andrews, North Haugh, St. Andrews, Fife, KY16 9SS, Scotland

    Ronald Morrison

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Zdonik, S.B., Wegner, P. (1988). Language and Methodology for Object-Oriented Database Environments. In: Atkinson, M.P., Buneman, P., Morrison, R. (eds) Data Types and Persistence. Topics in Information Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-61556-6_11

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