Adapting CLIM Applications for Use on the World Wide Web
by Paley, S. M. and Karp, P. D.
in Proceedings of the Association of Lisp Users Meeting and Workshop pp. 1-9,
1995.The World Wide Web (WWW) offers the potential to deliver specialized information to an audience of unprecedented size. Along with this exciting new opportunity, however, comes a challenge for software developers: instead of rewriting our software applications to operate over the WWW, how can we maximize software reuse by retrofitting existing applications? We have developed a Web server tool, written in Common Lisp, that allows any existing graphical user interface application written using the Common Lisp Interface Manager (CLIM) to hook easily into the WWW. This tool — CWEST — has been developed to operate with EcoCyc, an electronic encyclopedia of genes and metabolism of the bacterium E. coli. EcoCyc consists of a database of objects relevant to E. coli biochemistry and a sophisticated interface, implemented in CLIM, that runs on the local host window system and generates graphical displays appropriate to each type of object. The results can be seen at URL http://www.ai.sri.com/ecocyc/browser.html.
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| Karp, Peter D | Director, Bioinformatics Research Group |  |
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Paley, Suzanne | Computer Scientist | |
