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New website design, website host |
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Hey, a new website
design. It's been 7 years, seems like it is was about
time.
Lunarpages is our new host. A lot more disk space and
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Mica is evolving and delegating its generic
data modeling to the Obsidian Framework |
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Mica classic will
still be around, but Mica 2.0 will be stripped down,
partitioned into separate libraries, and with the MiModel
front end replaced with the binders and generic data
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MiUML is going away |
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MiUML has some unique GUI
behavior, but wasn't used all that much. And, anyway, UML has serious flaws
resulting from using the same representation for both a high-level modeling
language and a down-and-dirty visual programming language. |
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The antique downloads are going away |
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However, many of these
framework's design techniques and architectural approaches
will be incorporated into Obsidian. |
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Obsidian
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A Java XML-driven pluggable
data-service-controller framework with support for 100%
persistence data and
micro-versioning and deep GUIs. |
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Supports
innovative, aesthetic, fun, explorable user-interfaces |
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Manages
human-recognizable, application-friendly,
evolution-capable, 100% persistent and versioned data and
data structures |
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Full
in-the-field upgradeability, expandability, elasticity,
and longevity through a 3rd-party-friendly open-source
plug-in architecture |
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Contagious
robustness, simplicity and implementability |
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Yeah, it reads like it's only missing a
kitchen sink, but Obsidian has a lot of potential, being a
cleaner implementation of 1995's Cadabra, which had most of
these features but with too little structure it was too
amorphous, too general. Frameworks
should narrow the choices down to a few very good very chewy
morsels and then help the coder to eat them.
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Mica
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A Java
Object-Oriented 2D Vector Graphics and User Interface Framework.
Includes diagramming and network graphics editors. Free with source
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high-level, full-featured, object-oriented, hierarchical,
structured, resolution-independent, mixed graphics and user
interface widget library with multiple levels of drawing
abstraction written completely in Java.
2D
The system provides extensive
support for rendering and manipulation of vector and raster
graphics in two dimensions
High-level
A highly-customizable 'Graphics
Window Object' is provided that supplies much of the
functionality associated with 2D drawing programs. A Graphics
Object Model is also provided that abstracts general node-link
data structures.
Full-featured
Many graphics shapes, user
interface widgets, interactors, and demo applications are
included.
Object-oriented
All graphics shapes, user
interface widgets, interactors, layouts, connections, etc. are
objects and sub-classable by the programmer.
Hierarchical
Graphics shapes and user
interface widgets can be arbitrarily arranged in
container-part and reference-part directed acyclic graphs.
Structured
Graphics shapes and user
interface widgets can be connected together with first-class
connection objects into any number of directed or undirected
(network) graphs.
Resolution-independent
The sizes and locations of
graphics shapes and user interface independent widgets are
specified in device-resolution-independent floating point
coordinates and so have the same appearance and relative size
regardless of the size or dots-per-inch of the particular
screen or printer used for display.
Mixed graphics
Graphics shapes and user
interface widgets share the same coordinate space, the same
API and are of the same basic type.
Multiple levels
A variety of
functionality/performance trade-off options are available from
heavy-weight, full-featured graphics shapes to
very-light-weight simple graphics shapes to an immediate
rendering mode (in resolution-independent coordinates).
Written in Java
The robustness, ease-of-use,
portability and the other buzzwords of Java are inherited by
this software.
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