Re: What do you call this?

Shawn Hartsock wrote:
> I just saw a demonstration of a Java application that I can't identify
> what kind of product it is. Let me tell you what it does and then
> maybe someone can give me a name for it.
>
> It is a web page in a browser. It has Ajax controls. It has a list of
> things in a tree down the left side and three main panes on the right.
> When you click a name from the left side... the three panes on the
> right show a grid, a form, and a tabbed set of sub forms.
>
> You can create a form in it specifying data types for each field.
>
> You can create a form that takes one type of form on the left and
> associates it with another type of form on the right. You and add
> rules for this type of "relationship" form that describes how the two
> other forms relate to each other.
>
> So, I've designed a set of forms and designed relationships between
> them. What is this thing? It doesn't generate code. It doesn't create
> programs. I just describes data and the rules between them and stores
> the data. There is no way to read or write the data outside the tool.
> There are no objects and no tables.
>
> What is it?
>   

Where do the "things" in the tree on the left come from? Is this some 
sort of ERD tool? What was this tool called?

-Chris