The Gazebo Client Toolkit (CTK)
Overview
The Gazebo Client Toolkit is a Java class library for constructing
Gazebo clients. It contains no user-interface code, so it can be used
for adding search capability to a variety of non-GUI applications such
as search agents, data mining applications, etc. It's also ideal for
building GUIs.
The CTK provides an asynchronous, object-oriented interface to the
Gazebo service. It handles all XML parsing and socket communication.
Search requests, attributes, and results are represented by
classes, and results are delivered asynchronously to implementations
of straightforward result handling interfaces. The CTK also provides
rudimentary caching and transparent lazy retrieval so that the
CTK-based application need not manage information about which records
have and haven't yet been retrieved from the service.
Features
- Object-oriented representation of Gazebo service
- Asynchronous
- Transpartent lazy retrieval
- Automatic merging of search attributes
- XML processing based on Lark (included).
- Modular: contains no user interface code
