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RIS citation export for THPAB137: New Approach in Developing Open XAL Applications

TY - CONF
AU - Rosati, C.
AU - Laface, E.
ED - Schaa, Volker RW
ED - Arduini, Gianluigi
ED - Pranke, Juliana
ED - Seidel, Mike
ED - Lindroos, Mats
TI - New Approach in Developing Open XAL Applications
J2 - Proc. of IPAC2017, Copenhagen, Denmark, 14–19 May, 2017
C1 - Copenhagen, Denmark
T2 - International Particle Accelerator Conference
T3 - 8
LA - english
AB - Open XAL project is a pure-Java open source development environment used for creating accelerator physics applications, scripts and services. Working with Open XAL requires developing a Java application with a prominent graphical user interface, allowing the final user to interact with the accelerator model, and to graphically view the results such interaction produced. Nevertheless the Open XAL support for specialized components (handling plotting, EPICS connection) and for a document-view application framework, relieving the developer of the burden related with this programming aspects, a lot of boilerplate code has still to be created, making the developer spending more time in UI than in accelerator physics code. In this paper a new approach in developing Open XAL applications is explained. Here the developer is relieved of the UI-related common code code by using software tools, allowing him to visually design the flow of data and events between the various elements of the applications (widgets and models), and automatically generate the application code, where code generation can be customized to use one of the available plugged programming languages (Java, Python, JS, …).
PB - JACoW
CP - Geneva, Switzerland
SP - 4043
EP - 4046
KW - interface
KW - GUI
KW - software
KW - framework
KW - controls
DA - 2017/05
PY - 2017
SN - 978-3-95450-182-3
DO - 10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2017-THPAB137
UR - http://jacow.org/ipac2017/papers/thpab137.pdf
ER -