Applications = Components + GLoo

Components + GLoo

We are advocating a component-oriented software development approach that provides support for a clear separation between the computational and the compositional entities of an application. This principle is best captured by the application building paradigm “Applications = Components + Scripts.” However, the biggest obstacle for a successful use of this maxim originates from the choice of the ...

Language Prototyping in GLoo

Rapid prototyping is a viable engineering technique to explore and validate desirable system characteristics of software products in a flexible and agile manner. Dynamic programming languages with their emphasis on developer productivity and software quality provide a good fit for the required programming approach. However, with the exception of Scheme or Smalltalk, these languages are seldom u...

DWDM Fundamentals, Components, and Applications DWDM Fundamentals, Components, and Applications

GLOO: A Graphical Query Language for OWL Ontologies

The database usability experience has shown that visual query languages tend to be superior to textual languages in many aspects. By applying this principle in the context of ontologies, we present GLOO, a graphical query language for OWL-DL ontologies. GLOO maps diagrammatic queries to DL based query languages such as nRQL, which is offered by the OWL-DL reasoner Racer. GLOO hides the complexi...

Converting command-line applications into binary components

A binary component is a separately compiled program that can be used as a part of a larger program. Binary components generally conform to an accepted technology such as JavaBeans or ActiveX, and generally support a rich program interface containing properties methods and events. Binary components are generally used in a graphical user interface (GUI) environment. There are a number of benefits...