Klaus R. Dittrich is a professor in the Department of Information Technology at the University of Zurich, where he heads the Database Technology Research Group. he is the current secretary of the VLDB Endowment Board and has been a member of the ACM SIGMOD Advisory Committee. Professor Dittrich has been nominated as a Distinguished Speaker under the IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Visitors. He has over 100 scientific publications in the area of database technology and, in particular, has followed and influenced the development of object database technology from its inception. Andreas Geppert is a senior researcher in the Database Technology Research Group at the University of Zurich. He has been working on object-oriented and active database systems and DMBS architecture and related topics for many years and has numerous publications in these areas.

"We have in hand a wonderful book to show us how far database technology has been able to move in the direction of component databases, and what enormous challenges and ensuing rewards still lie ahead." --Peter C. Lockemann, Universität Karlsruhe

• Chapter 1 - Component Database Systems: Introduction, Foundations and Overview Chapter 2 - Distributed Component Database Management Systems Chapter 3 - All Your Data: The Oracle Extensibility Architecture Chapter 4 - Extensible Indexing Support in DB2 Universal Database Chapter 5 - Enabling Component Databases with OLE DB Chapter 6 - An Architecture for Transparent Access to Diverse Data Sources Chapter 7 Building Component Database Systems Using CORBA Chapter 8 - The Architecture of a Database System for Mobile and Embedded Devices Chapter 9 - Conclusions and Perspectives

Klaus R. Dittrich is a professor in the Department of Information Technology at the University of Zurich, where he heads the Database Technology Research Group. he is the current secretary of the VLDB Endowment Board and has been a member of the ACM SIGMOD Advisory Committee. Professor Dittrich has been nominated as a Distinguished Speaker under the IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Visitors. He has over 100 scientific publications in the area of database technology and, in particular, has followed and influenced the development of object database technology from its inception. Andreas Geppert is a senior researcher in the Database Technology Research Group at the University of Zurich. He has been working on object-oriented and active database systems and DMBS architecture and related topics for many years and has numerous publications in these areas.

"We have in hand a wonderful book to show us how far database technology has been able to move in the direction of component databases, and what enormous challenges and ensuing rewards still lie ahead." --Peter C. Lockemann, Universität Karlsruhe

• Chapter 1 - Component Database Systems: Introduction, Foundations and Overview Chapter 2 - Distributed Component Database Management Systems Chapter 3 - All Your Data: The Oracle Extensibility Architecture Chapter 4 - Extensible Indexing Support in DB2 Universal Database Chapter 5 - Enabling Component Databases with OLE DB Chapter 6 - An Architecture for Transparent Access to Diverse Data Sources Chapter 7 Building Component Database Systems Using CORBA Chapter 8 - The Architecture of a Database System for Mobile and Embedded Devices Chapter 9 - Conclusions and Perspectives

Klaus R. Dittrich is a professor in the Department of Information Technology at the University of Zurich, where he heads the Database Technology Research Group. he is the current secretary of the VLDB Endowment Board and has been a member of the ACM SIGMOD Advisory Committee. Professor Dittrich has been nominated as a Distinguished Speaker under the IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Visitors. He has over 100 scientific publications in the area of database technology and, in particular, has followed and influenced the development of object database technology from its inception. Andreas Geppert is a senior researcher in the Database Technology Research Group at the University of Zurich. He has been working on object-oriented and active database systems and DMBS architecture and related topics for many years and has numerous publications in these areas.

"We have in hand a wonderful book to show us how far database technology has been able to move in the direction of component databases, and what enormous challenges and ensuing rewards still lie ahead." --Peter C. Lockemann, Universität Karlsruhe

• Chapter 1 - Component Database Systems: Introduction, Foundations and Overview Chapter 2 - Distributed Component Database Management Systems Chapter 3 - All Your Data: The Oracle Extensibility Architecture Chapter 4 - Extensible Indexing Support in DB2 Universal Database Chapter 5 - Enabling Component Databases with OLE DB Chapter 6 - An Architecture for Transparent Access to Diverse Data Sources Chapter 7 Building Component Database Systems Using CORBA Chapter 8 - The Architecture of a Database System for Mobile and Embedded Devices Chapter 9 - Conclusions and Perspectives