Functionalities

The basic functionalities of DB-MAIN are:

• Specification management
  No restriction on maximum size of projects that can be saved
  Extended project history view
  Extended ER schemas, UML class diagrams, UML activity diagrams, UML use case diagrams
  A range of graphical and textual schema displays
  Definition of views to show sub-schemas
  Full edition of schemas
  Schema printing
  Reporting
  Schema transformation
  Log of schema transformations
• Assistants
  Schema analysis assistant, schema transformation assistant (advanced), schema integration assistant, text analysis assistant and referential key search assistant
  Automatic transformation to relational model
  Name processing
• Methodological environment
  Methodological engine (use of methodologies)
• Development environment
  Use of Java or Voyager (proprietary 4GL) programs
  Meta-properties to extend definition of schema components
  User tools palettes
• Code generation
  Standard SQL (SQL92) generation, Access generation, Interbase generation, MySQL generation, PostgreSQL generation
• Code extraction
  SQL and ODBC extraction
• Other plugins
  Mapping assistant (Java)
  Docbook generation (Java)