DRIVE: An environment for the organised construction of user interfaces to data.

Mitchell, Kenneth; Kennedy, Jessie; Barclay, Peter J.

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.

Citation

Mitchell, K., Kennedy, J., & Barclay, P. J. (1996, July). DRIVE: An environment for the organised construction of user interfaces to data. Presented at 3rd International Workshop on User Interfaces to Databases - IDS3, 1996

• Conference Name: 3rd International Workshop on User Interfaces to Databases - IDS3, 1996
• Start Date: Jul 8, 1996
• End Date: Jul 10, 1996
• Publication Date: 1996
• Deposit Date: Nov 10, 2009
• Publicly Available Date: Nov 10, 2009
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Book Title: Interfaces to Databases (IDS-3): Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Interfaces to Databases, Napier University, Edinburgh, 8-10 July 1996.
• ISBN: 3-540-76066-0 & 978-3540760665
• Keywords: Object oriented databases; Object oriented data language; User interface development; Interactive interface specification; Generic environment model; DRIVE
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/2981
• Contract Date: Nov 10, 2009