Abstract:
MViews abstracts out common features of multi-view
editing environments that support integrated textual and
graphical programming. It provides a conceptual model
and reusable object-oriented framework for constructing
such environments. Multiple views of a base document are
supported with consistency automatically maintained
between each of the views. MViews has been used to
construct a visual and textual programming and program
visualisation environment for object-oriented systems.
Other applications of MViews under development include
entity-relationship and dataflow diagrammers with
detailed descriptions programmed with text.