9: Glamour

with the participation of:

Tudor Girba (tudor@tudorgirba.com)

Browsers are a crucial instrument in understanding complex systems or models. A browser is a tool to navigate and interact with a particular domain. Each problem domain is accompanied by an abundance of browsers that are created to help analyze and interpret the underlying elements. The issue with these browsers is that they are frequently (re)written from scratch, making them expensive to create and burdensome to maintain. While many frameworks exist to ease the development of user interfaces in general, they provide only limited support to simplifying the creation of browsers.

Glamour is a dedicated framework to describe the navigation flow of browsers. Thanks to its declarative language, Glamour allows one to quickly define new browsers for their data.

In this chapter we will first detail the creation of some example browsers to have an overview of the Glamour framework. In a second part, we will jump into details.

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