Title: 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.