Micram Microelectronic GmbH, which has distributed Objectivity Inc’s eponymous object-oriented database management system since January in Germany, has launched Classify/DB, a graphical user interface builder for use with the database. Classify/DB enables users to take graphical objects generated using General Electric Co Inc’s OMTool and CentreLine Software Inc’s OI library and automatically convert them into objects that can be used as a front end to Objectivity databases. OMTool is best used for formal analysis and design methodologies, such as Rumbaugh and Coad-Yourdon, while OI library provides a less structured but very graphical front end. Support for Visual Edge Software Ltd’s UIM/X Motif graphical user interface builder should also be available later this year. It will be possible to buy Classify/DB from the Bochum, Germany-based Micram from September, but Objectivity plans to sell it too by the end of the year. Prices have not yet been decided.
