EasyInterface: A toolkit for rapid development of GUIs for research prototype tools
Abstract
In this paper we describe EasyInterface, an open-source toolkit for rapid development of web-based graphical user interfaces (GUIs). This toolkit addresses the need of researchers to make their research prototype tools available to the community, and integrating them in a common environment, rapidly and without being familiar with web programming or GUI libraries in general. If a tool can be executed from a command-line and its output goes to the standard output, then in few minutes one can make it accessible via a web-interface or within Eclipse. Moreover, the toolkit defines a text-based language that can be used to get more sophisticated GUIs, e.g., syntax highlighting, dialog boxes, user interactions, etc. EasyInterface was originally developed for building a common frontend for tools developed in the Envisage project.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1702.00364,
title = {EasyInterface: A toolkit for rapid development of GUIs for research prototype tools},
author = {Jesús Doménech and Samir Genaim and Einar Broch Johnsen and Rudolf Schlatte},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1702.00364},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
Preprint of a FASE'17 paper