E-R modeler: a database modeling toolkit for Eclipse

  • Authors:
  • Song Zhou;Chuanxi Xu;Hui Wu;Jing Zhang;Yuehua Lin;Juanqin Wang;Jeff Gray;Barrett Bryant

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL;University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL;University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL;University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL;University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL;University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL;University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL;University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL

  • Venue:
  • ACM-SE 42 Proceedings of the 42nd annual Southeast regional conference
  • Year:
  • 2004

Quantified Score

Hi-index 0.00

Visualization

Abstract

Eclipse is a Java integrated development environment (IDE) and tool integration platform that offers numerous extension points for customization through a plug-in architecture. This paper describes the design of an Eclipse plug-in called E-R Modeler. As a database design toolkit, the E-R Modeler provides an E-R (Entity-Relationship) diagram development environment that supports XML and DDL (Database Definition Language) generation tools. It also provides database connection and schema creation capabilities. As an Eclipse plug-In, it offers multiple extension points for other applications to build upon.