Dictionary Editor and Browser

• platform for dictionary writing systems development
  • basically any XML data
  • strict client-server architecture
• server
  • server side modules (servlets in Ruby)
  • database backend (Oracle Berkeley DB XML or Sedna)
• client
  • simple functionality
  • graphical interfaces (Mozilla/Firefox extensions)
  • web interfaces
• freely available - see Availability

Features

The main features of the DEB II system are:

• strict client-server architecture, the communication between clients and server is based on the HTTP protocol.
• easily extensible server design:
  • server consists of small servlets
  • data backend uses Oracle Berkeley DB XML or Sedna
  • servlets are written in a strongly object oriented and interpreted Ruby language
• clients are simple tools with separate GUI and functionality:
  • GUI is written in the XML-based User Interface Language, XUL. XUL is the user interface description language used for creating user interfaces with Mozilla's Cross Platform Front End. An example of an application that is written in this language is the whole Firefox browser or Mozilla Extensions.
  • some projects use HTML interface
  • the GUI is connected to the particular servlets with underlying Javascript functions.
• the server runs on a Linux machine, but clients (thanks to the XUL design) are multiplatform. They use the Mozilla Cross Platform Front End engine, so all the clients work anywhere, where the Mozilla Firefox browser works (i.e. officially Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X, unofficially many others).