SOPView: a visual query and object browsing environment for SOP OODBMS

Abstract

SOPView is a graphical user environment for SOP OODBMS. SOPView supports the frame-based visual specification of object-oriented database query elements such as target classes, projections, conditional predicates, and path expressions. SOPView also provides a browsing method which consists of components such as visualization structure, synchronized browsing, and intermediate reference set query in order for users to understand and access the complex reference hierarchy in object-oriented databases with ease.