METHOD INVOCATION IN AN OBJECT ORIENTED DATABASE SYSTEM

By modeling behavior of real world entities,the concept of class methods in an object oriented database system provides a new approach to software sharing and reusing.These methods are active data in the database in the sense that when accessed they are invoked and gain control of running.This brings about a new problem of method invocation.This paper describes and discusses three main techniques to solve it,namely,static linking,dynamic linking, and interpreting.