An object-wrapping technique for integrating non-traditional database systems

The integration of the non-traditional database systems, such as object-oriented databases, multimedia databases and file systems, presents a new challenge for the information integration technique. The paper proposes an object-wrapping technique for the development of integrated system. This object-wrapping technique efficiently makes use of object-oriented technology to support the schema integration mechanism, in particular to be capable of integrating the file system in which the schema doesn´t exist. The feasibility of this technique is demonstrated by the development of the prototype system, CIM-IDS. The paper introduces the object-wrapping technique in CIM-IDS and the design of its core part-object wrapper in detail