Using Application Domain Specific Runtime Systems and Lightweight User Interface Models

This paper presents an application domain specific run-time system using a lightweight user interface model to combine advanced user interfaces with flexible configuration mechanisms. The system is called the VUIM — VRP User Interface Module, and is a generic user interface run time system for vehicle routing applications. It balances between being a very general, model-based, non-application domain specific UI development tool and being a turnkey application (ready to use, but with very limited abilities to be adapted to specific needs). The VUIM includes a class library with a set of generic, but application domain-specific UI building blocks. These building blocks are on a higher level than simple UI controls, but more generic than a dialog box or a window in an application. The class library is augmented with a run time system (generic application), that “interprets” a UI model. The VUIM exemplifies a novel approach for CADUI.

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