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.