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M2N: building Swing apps with N3
At the Triple-I conference in Graz, I came across one very interesting demo by the M2N Intelligence Management company, where they showed a Development environment powered by N3, the powerful, easy to read notation for the Semantic Web. Using a Visual Editor that mapped UML diagrams to N3, instead of the usual limited and difficult to understand OMG MOF family of standards, we could see how one could build a complete User Interface application, including logic in a visual way. The same could be done manually in vi by editing the N3 directly, for those proficient enough. I think they describe parts of this very generally on their solutions page.
It is a pity that M2N does not open source this library, as that would allow one to get a better idea as to the advantages of doing things this way. Sebastian Schaffert - who works at a research company in Salzburg, and was looking at their demo with me - was quite enthusiastic about the idea. There was a lot one could do with such a tool, he thought, such as being able to SPARQL query one's user interface, test it for constraints, etc...
It would be nice to have some feedback from people who had used this on the pros and the cons of their implementation, or of the general idea.
Posted at 11:13PM Sep 18, 2007 [permalink/trackback] by Henry Story in Java | Comments[0]
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