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The Mjolner Project

The Mjolner project was a research project carried out in cooperation by Nordic universities and industrial companies, including participants from Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and Finland. The project started in 1986 and finished in 1991. The objective was to increase the productivity of high quality software in industrial settings by designing and implementing object-oriented software development environments supporting specification, implementation and maintenance of large production programs.

A number of practical systems have been developed within the project:

The interactice software development environment Orm, grammar-driven, and based on incremental compilation.
The Mjolner BETA system, an environment for the BETA language. This development also resulted in a spin-off company: Mjolner Informatics.
Tools for object-oriented SDL (OSDL). The first design of the OSDL language was also made within the Mjolner project.

The results of the project are documented in numerous publications, including research articles and PhD theses. The most important results are collected in a book: " Object-oriented environments: The Mjolner approach".

The name "Mjolner" is taken from Nordic mythology where Mjolner is the name of the god Thor's hammer. According to mythology, this hammer is the perfect tool that cannot fail, grows with the task, and always comes back to Thor's hand.

Last modified: August 19, 1999