Treffer: Interface/implementation Separation Mechanism for Integrating Object-oriented Management Systems and General-purpose Programming Languages

When a database is shared in different database applications, it is helpful for data-independence and program readability to screen off the implementation details of a schema class from the programs other than the method implementation code. This makes some systems allow their users to define the schema class in two parts—the interface and the implementation. In this paper, we propose a preprocessing-based approach with the object model for OODBPLs (object oriented database programming languages) with interface/implementation separation.