Java based distributed multimedia data streaming with object request broker

Abstract

As multimedia capable computers become cheaper and more pervasive in the consumer and corporate markets, and as the availability of digital information increases, the need for low-cost, crossplatform multimedia applications will steadily rise. However multimedia data is nearly useless if there is no computer-aided manipulating, searching, and retrieving mechanism to obtain the desired media contents. This paper describes a research project of a Java-based multimedia data query, streaming and presentation for distributed multimedia database. This work addresses the problem of integrating multimedia content into network and internet based database applications. The application was designed using JAVA technology for developing client application/GUI and server application. Java provides a set of class libraries, called the Java Media Framework (JMF), which provides the crossplatform multimedia data support required by the application as well as by using Java, it can utilize all its functionality across platforms within any Javaenabled web browsers. This allows greater use of audio video data, because the users will no longer need to pre-install any software to present or play the data, beyond Java compatibility. The Object Relational Database Management (IBM DB2) is used for the development of multimedia database as it allows queries to be performed on complex data.