TrioVis is a stand-alone, desktop application developed in Processing (Reas et al., 2007), an open source programming language and integrated development environment (IDE), based on Java, and is available for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows.
The fast transformation of the Internet into a social web (O'Reilly, 2005) has been due to technological shifts, such as the use of browsers instead of desktop applications, the development of mobile technology, and the availability of cloud computing.
In this context this paper presents AIBench, an open-source Java desktop application framework for scientific software development with the goal of providing support to both fundamental and applied research in the domain of translational biomedicine.
Outsourcing roughly 65% of EDS' business will grow as belt-tightening companies look to farm out functions like e-mail, desktop maintenance, data center management and application development.
This paper presents J-TEXT C# desktop application framework, introducing the technology of fast development of the modularized operator interface.
Enabling developers to use.NET for mobile application development means they can re-use code from other projects, including desktop and server side applications.
With the goal of improving the productivity of research groups, J-TEXT has designed a C# desktop application framework which is mainly focused on operator interface development.
Here we report the development of the BLAST Ring Image Generator (BRIG), a user-friendly desktop application for comparing and visualising prokaryote genomes using BLAST.
The web fostered an explosion in the creativity of application development and Apollo will undoubtedly do the same for desktop development.
With the continuing development of web technologies, it is becoming feasible for websites to operate a lot like a scientific desktop application.
