Title: Department of Computer Science Seminar
Date: Wed, May 1, 2002
Time: 4:00 pm to 5:00pm
Venue: Room N101, CSIT Building [108]
Speaker:  Mr Shayne Flint (PhD Student at DCS, ANU)
Description: "Simplified Development of Web Applications with Armidale"

                            Abstract

The World Wide Web is increasingly being used, across all sectors of the
Information Technology industry, to host distributed interactive
applications. Many of these applications are built using a combination
of different, and sometimes inappropriate, technologies. 
Often the final products are complex, and the associated likelihood 
of increased development, integration, deployment and
maintenance problems lead to higher overall lifecycle costs.

This paper outlines the requirements, design, implementation 
and testing of armidale, a set of open source programs 
and libraries designed to radically simplify the development, 
deployment and use of web applications that have rich graphical user
interfaces. Armidale applications are developed, using conventional
programming techniques and the armidale API, 
as if they were stand-alone programs. These programs
can then be run on stand-alone computers or installed on an armidale
server. When installed on a server, armidale applications 
display their GUI on client computers across the Internet (or
intranet). A high level, light weight message protocol between
the server and its clients ensures that armidale applications 
respond well to user interaction.

http://armidale.anu.edu.au

URL: http://cs.anu.edu.au/lib/seminars/seminars02/dept20020501