MoodView

Abstract

OODBMSs need more than declarative query languages and programming languages as their interfaces since they are designed and implemented for complex applications requiring more advanced and easy to use visual interfaces. We have developed a complete programming environment for this purpose, called MoodView. MoodView translates all the user actions performed through its graphical interface to SQL statements and therefore it can be ported onto any object-oriented database systems using SQL. MoodView provides the database programmer with tools and functionalities for every phase of object oriented database application development. Current version of MoodView allows a database user to design, browse, and modify database schema interactively and to display class inheritance hierarchy as a directed acyclic graph. MoodView can automatically generate graphical displays for complex and multimedia database objects which can be updated through the object browser. Furthermore, a database administration tool, a full screen text-editor, a SQL based query manager, and a graphical indexing tool for the spatial data, i.e., R Trees are also implemented.