The design and implementation of the Zeus View System

Increasing complexity and diversity of future information systems call for new approaches that support intelligent and integrated access to heterogeneous, autonomous, and distributed information systems. Future software developments also exert strong demands on facilities for supporting code reuse, tool integration, cooperative programming, programming in the large and management of large-scale software projects. We have proposed a view mechanism that is intended to meet the needs of future data and software engineering applications. We present the design and implementation of the Zeus View System (ZVS) in a large-scale distributed computing environment. The results and our experience with the implementation issues of the ZVS are presented.<>