Object-wrapping technique for integrating non-traditional database systems

The integration of the non-traditional database systems, such as object-oriented database, multimedia database and file system, makes the information integration technique face with the new challenge. This paper proposes an object-wrapping technique to the development of integrated system. This object-wrapping technique efficiently makes use of the 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. This paper will introduce the object-wrapping technique in CIM-IDS and the design of its core part-object wrapper in detail.