Building reusable data representations with FaceKit

  • Authors:
  • Roger King;Michael Novak

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGMOD Record
  • Year:
  • 1992

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Abstract

FaceKit is a toolkit for designing interfaces to object-oriented databases. It provides users with a set of tools for building custom interfaces with minimal programming. This is accomplished by combining techniques from the realm of User Interface Management Systems (UIMS) with a built-in knowledge about the specific kinds of techniques used by object-oriented databases. One of the main features of FaceKit is the ability to rapidly create reusable graphical constructs for representing schema or data objects. These constructs are stored within the database as methods, often dependent on attribute data. Building up a library of these data representations facilities reusability within a variety of databases.