Interactive manipulation of object-oriented views

Abstract

An approach to providing view support in object-oriented (O/sub 2/) databases is presented. The approach uses what is called a hyper-view and combines results from research on database design and man-machine interfaces. A mechanism that allows interacting with databases through hyper-views and built on top of the O/sub 2/ system is described. The approach is based on conciliating stored data and their visualization. Not only views corresponding to one class, but also multiclass views are considered. Hyper-views are supported by ToonMaker, a user interface generator system implemented for the O/sub 2/ database management system.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">&gt;</ETX>