A CORBA-based distributed multimedia database management layer: design and implementation aspects

Multimedia applications executing on distributed environments lack a seamless approach to handle their components' persistent contents. A persistence middleware layer that allows the integration of multimedia databases with media-dedicated storage servers is presented. The design of SGPOM follows the philosophy of RM-ODP and CORBA persistent object service, thus enabling a clean integration with this distributed object platform. The main aspects related to the service implementation using the Java programming language are also described.