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Dynamic Hypermedia Engine (DHE)

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Towards Hypermedia Support In Database Systems, Anirban Bhaumik Jan 2001

Towards Hypermedia Support In Database Systems, Anirban Bhaumik

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The general goal of our research is to automatically generate links and other hypermedia related services to analytical applications. Using a dynamic hypermedia engine (DHE), the following features have been automated for database systems. Based on the database's relational (physical) schema and its original (non-normalized) entity-relationship specification links are generated, database application developers may also specify the relationship between different classes of database elements. These elements can be controlled by the same or different database application, or even by another software system. A DHE prototype has been developed and illustrates the above for a relational database management system.

The DHE …