OMS rapid prototyping system for the development of object-oriented database application systems

We present an object-oriented data model and system that supports the development of database application systems through a combination of rapid prototyping and refinement. Prototyping is performed on an abstract application model and is independent of any implementation platform supporting not only the design stage, but also analysis and requirements modelling. The underlying model, OM, has a two-level structure which reflects the two aspects of object-oriented database application systems - data modelling and programming. We are therefore able to cleanly integrate ideas from both the database and software engineering communities and achieve compatibility with object models used in both.