Design and Development of an Eclipse Schema Editor for OMSjp Diploma Thesis

Nowadays, JavaTM has become a widespread standard for object oriented programming and a growing number of applications is implemented in this language. For this reason, the Global Information Systems Group has chosen JavaTM as the language for the API to all the systems of the OMS family. This API, named OMSjp, serves as a uniform platform for OMS based application development. Furthermore, the group has created a graphical user interface on top of OMSjp for modelling and administrating OMS databases. This front-end is applicable to all OMS platforms sup-ported by OMSjp. Again, this graphical user interface has been implemented in JavaTM. It has been developped as an Eclipse plug-in and allows OMS databases to be managed from within an integrated development environment. However, a schema editor for graphically editing the type and classification schema was still missing. The aim of this diploma thesis is to enrich the existing front-end with the ability to build and edit databases by means of a schema diagram, thereby minimising the user’s effort to create and maintain OMS databases