SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING AND MAINTAINING SOFTWARE CODE

摘要

An Integrated Development Environment having numerous cooperating modules which together provide a system and method for generating and maintaining software, in particular, the software for data development and data manipulation languages. Among other modules, the Integrated Development Environment includes a document manager for use in transparently retrieving related software files. Retrieved software files can be modified using an editor. The editing process may be enhanced through the use of a visualizer that allows the program flow and/or the data flow of the of the software files to be displayed.