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Object-oriented database management systems (OODBMSs) are emerging as commercial products. While they do not compete directly with relational databases, relational systems have established a level of usability which OODBMSs must strive to match. This is true particularly in the area of tools and user interfaces. OODBMSs pose particular problems for user interface designers but also provide some potentially exploitable characteristics. This paper identifies some of these and describes a framework for providing user interfaces for a class of OODBMS where the direct encapsulation of objects’ user interfaces in methods or views is neither possible nor desirable.
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Sawyer, P., Colebourne, A., Sommerville, I., Mariani, J. (1993). Object-Oriented Database Systems: a Framework for User Interface Development. In: Cooper, R. (eds) Interfaces to Database Systems (IDS92). Workshops in Computing. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3423-7_3
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