Multimedia Data Transmission and Object Orientation

  This chapter provides a conceptual link between object-oriented multimedia-application design and multimedia-data transmission. I will first review the object-oriented paradigm briefly in Section , and will then give an overview of object-oriented design approaches for multimedia applications in Section . Thereafter in Sections and , I will will describe in some detail data streams and object streams, respectively.

• The Object-Oriented Paradigm
• Overview of Object-Oriented Design Approaches for Multimedia Applications
• Data Streams
  • Components
  • Integration of Network Communication
• Object Streams
  • Differences from the Data Stream Model
  • Object Reification