Hi all, I have an idea for a Google Summer of Code project relating to SCXML, and I wanted to post it and see if there would be any interest in it in the Apache SCXML Commons community.
The basic idea of the project is to create a Statechart-to-JavaScript compiler which is optimized for developing rich, browser-based user interfaces on the world wide web. Statecharts are well-suited for describing certain kinds of complex UI behaviour, and the browser environment is already a particularly challenging platform for front-end developers to target, hence a Statechart-to-JavaScript compiler could be a great boon for web front-end developers. I have already done some work on both developing rich, browser-based user interfaces using SVG and Statecharts [0], and on constructing a Statechart-to-JavaScript compiler, which takes a statechart encoded as SCXML, and outputs optimized JavaScript. The work of the GSoC project would be to complete the Statechart-to-JavaScript compiler, and enhance it to support animated, graphical debugging, such that it would generate a graphical representation of the statechart (using SVG or Graphviz dot), and instrument the compiled code so that it animates the graphical representation. This could then be hooked into a live user-interface to allow one to graphically debug their user interface. If anyone has any questions or comments, please let me know. Thanks, Jake [0] http://www.svgopen.org/2009/papers/36-Modelling_the_Reactive_Behaviour_of_SVGbased_Scoped_User_Interfaces_with_Hierarchicallylinked_Statecharts/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
