Data Access is integrated into Views Component Suite, thus profiting from all of the Views features and from its extensive libraries. In particular, it makes use of the Views Studio GUI editor by adding palettes of database-specific gadgets with predefined functionality.

A simple database schema editor is also furnished to help you get started with the examples in this manual. For your own applications, you should refer to your DBMS documentation to find the right tool for building database tables.

Figure 1.1 shows how Data Access is situated in relation to Views, to the database application, and to the database.