DRIVE: an environment for the organised construction of user-interfaces to databases

Authors:
Kenneth J. Mitchell;Jessie B. Kennedy
Affiliations:
Computer Studies Department, Napier University, Edinburgh, Scotland;Computer Studies Department, Napier University, Edinburgh, Scotland
Venue:
Interfaces'96 Proceedings of the 1996 international conference on Interfaces to Databases
Year:
1996

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Abstract

This paper describes a runtime user-interface development environment (UIDE) for the novel capability of interactively using and specifying user-interfaces to object-oriented databases (IDSs). A framework provides the foundation for IDSs constructed. This concerns interpreting an IDS, specified in a conceptual object-oriented data language, using a persistent meta model. A generic environment model facilitates dynamic integration of existing user-interface widgets into the meta model. This achieves the goal of providing a database representation independent visual environment (DRIVE). The architecture and use of DRIVE are described and the benefits of this approach are discussed.