Distributed Object-Oriented Database Application Design

摘要

The purpose of this study is to analyze and develop a distributed object-orienteddatabase management system (DOODBMS) application to support parallel software development of the Parallel Algorithms and Applications Group (PAAG) at AFIT. By following the software lifecycle of object-oriented paradigm, this thesis investigation is intended to generate requirements analysis, design, implementation, user interface design and implementation, and integration of the database application with the user interface. ITASCA, an existing DOODBMS platform, has been chosen to prototype the application for its distribution functionalities and object-oriented modeling power. The user interface of the database application is based on X-window OSF/Motif front-end system for its efficiency. Various operations of this distributed database include: retrieve information in the database, modify data at the local site, look up information of publications of libraries, etc. The user may access each local computer through graphical user interface without knowing the query language constructs of the DOODBMS platform....Database management system (DBMS), Object-oriented database management system (OODBMS), Distributed object-oriented database management system (DOO-DBMS), User interface application design, Motif user interface design.