12.1. Introduction
JEDMICS is a large image management system that is accessed by a number of heterogeneous client applications, which require access to the same image repository. The Open Application Interface (OAI) is a new API for providing client application developers with a unified interface to the image repository, thereby introducing a layer of abstraction between the end user and the physical storage layer of the data and metadata that make up the image management system.
This chapter describes and discusses the design and implementation of the JEDMICS OAI system, an EJB-based API (Enterprise Java Bean–based API) that provides access to image data that is stored on a variety of storage media and metadata stored in a relational database ...
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