Generating Call-Level Interfaces for Advanced Database Application Programming.

Udo Nink, Theo Härder, Norbert Ritter: Generating Call-Level Interfaces for Advanced Database Application Programming. VLDB 1999: 575-586

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/vldb/NinkHR99,
  author    = {Udo Nink and
               Theo H{\"a}rder and
               Norbert Ritter},
  editor    = {Malcolm P. Atkinson and
               Maria E. Orlowska and
               Patrick Valduriez and
               Stanley B. Zdonik and
               Michael L. Brodie},
  title     = {Generating Call-Level Interfaces for Advanced Database Application
               Programming},
  booktitle = {VLDB'99, Proceedings of 25th International Conference on Very
               Large Data Bases, September 7-10, 1999, Edinburgh, Scotland,
               UK},
  publisher = {Morgan Kaufmann},
  year      = {1999},
  isbn      = {1-55860-615-7},
  pages     = {575-586},
  ee        = {db/conf/vldb/NinkHR99.html},
  crossref  = {DBLP:conf/vldb/99},
  bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}

Abstract

It has always been a hard problem to provide application programming interfaces (API) for database systems without sacrificing some advantages of either the database management system or of the programming languages. Various approaches have been proposed. We discuss APIs with respect to SQL3 and its object-relational extensions as well as to object-oriented programming languages. We argue that generated call-level interfaces (CLI) are better suited than classical CLIs and language embeddings to couple database languages to object-oriented programming languages. Profiting from code generation and early binding of type information, generated CLIs improve the pros of embeddings while obviating the cons of classical CLIs. We propose an architecture for generated CLIs consisting of a cache module, a generated run-time system, and a compiler that generates parts of the (generated) CLI. The partial generation is specified using a configuration language to describe application-specific early binding of type information corresponding to data models, schemas, and queries. With this approach, we can control the sharing of database type information for application programs as well as the deferrable adaptation of applications to different needs by extending interfaces and by replacing implementations.

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