An Object Data Model with Roles.

Antonio Albano, Roberto Bergamini, Giorgio Ghelli, Renzo Orsini: An Object Data Model with Roles. VLDB 1993: 39-51

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  author    = {Antonio Albano and
               Roberto Bergamini and
               Giorgio Ghelli and
               Renzo Orsini},
  editor    = {Rakesh Agrawal and
               Se{\'a}n Baker and
               David A. Bell},
  title     = {An Object Data Model with Roles},
  booktitle = {19th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, August
               24-27, 1993, Dublin, Ireland, Proceedings},
  publisher = {Morgan Kaufmann},
  year      = {1993},
  isbn      = {1-55860-152-X},
  pages     = {39-51},
  ee        = {db/conf/vldb/AlbanoBGO93.html},
  crossref  = {DBLP:conf/vldb/93},
  bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}

Abstract

Fibonacci is a strongly typed, object-oriented database programming language with a new mechanism to model objects with roles. Traditional object-oriented programming languages do not have the possibility of changing dynamically the type of an object to model the behaviour of real world entities which change their status over time. This is a severe limitation in the context of a databaseprogramming language. Moreover, traditional object-oriented languages do not model the fact that the behaviour of real world entities may depend on the rolethat they play. We propose a mechanism to face both problems in the context ofa statically strongly typed object-oriented database programming language. We show that the two problems are strictly related and can be solved without giving up the most useful features of object-oriented programming, namely: inheritance, late binding and encapsulation. Examples will be given referring to the prototype implementation of the language.

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