General and specialty specific Image Storage Solution providers use various storage technologies such as RAIDS, magnetic systems, WORM-CDROM, RW-CDROM, Magneto-optical systems, RW-DVD, DATs, or other memory storage devices. These hardware devices are used by different database systems (such as relational, object oriented, multi-dimensional, and groupware programs) for the centralized storage and retrieval of multimedia data types. However, a distributed architecture for data storage and retrieval requires middleware components which utilize DCOM, Enterprise Java Beans, CORBA, and/or XML for retrieval and storage of objects.