Implementation of the GOQL language

Keramopoulos, E., Pouyioutas, P. and Ptohos, T. 2004. Implementation of the GOQL language. in: Banissi, E. (ed.) Eighth International Conference on Information Visualisation: proceedings IEEE Computer Society Las Alamitos, USA. pp. 685-692

Chapter titleImplementation of the GOQL language
AuthorsKeramopoulos, E., Pouyioutas, P. and Ptohos, T.
EditorsBanissi, E.
Abstract

The Graphical Object Query Language (GOQL) is a

graphical query language that complies with the ODMG

3.0 standard and runs on top of the o2 DBMS. GOQL

provides users with the User's View (UV) and the Folders

Window (FW), which serve as the foundation upon which

end-users pose ad-hoc queries. The UV is a graphical

representation of any underlying ODMG scheme. Among

its advantages is that it hides from end-users most of the

perplexing details of the object-oriented database model,

such as methods, hierarchies and relationships. To

achieve this, the UV does not distinguish between

methods, attributes and relationships, it encapsulates is-a

hierarchies and it utilises a number of desktop metaphors

whose semantics can be easily understood by end-users.

The FW is a condensed version of the UV and provides

the starting point for constructing queries. In this paper,

we demonstrate the UV and the FW and discuss GOQL's

system architecture, its various components and the way

these components interact to generate the UV and the FW

and to provide an ad hoc query construction mechanism.

We also present the screen interface of the language.

Book titleEighth International Conference on Information Visualisation: proceedings
Page range685-692
Year2004
PublisherLas Alamitos, USA
Publication dates
Published2004
Place of publicationIEEE Computer Society
ISBN0769521770
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)https://doi.org/10.1109/IV.2004.1320216
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EventEighth International Conference on Information Visualisation (IV 2004)

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