Google web toolkit for OGCE gadget based architecture
Zhenpeng Zhao, Jungha Woo, David Braun · 2011
This paper introduces a gadget-based web 2.0 architecture for building scientific and educational tools. This architecture builds on ideas from both Google Web Toolkit (GWT) and Google gadget and adds AJAX functionality. The gadgets developed with GWT are hosted in the Open Gateway Computing Environments (OGCE) container. The community of scientific applications and science gateways developers face the challenges of rapid development of scientific and educational tools for their users. This web application development approach allows developers to create a gadget graphical user interface within hours and, thus, can potentially expand the variety of OpenSocial Gadgets. A gadget that has been developed using our gadget-based architecture for online Community Earth System Model (CESM) simulations is presented as a use case in this paper.