Show Off and Appetizers
The best way to learn about what an on-top-of-Web scenario can be and get excited about it is to see few real examples. Check out the following screencasts showing LumberJaczk in action. They demonstrate various ways a scenario can be executed:
- a standalone desktop application
- an application played in desktop player
- Firefox integrated player
Each of such scenarios can be available as small package (kB), downloadable and installable by a click. All the screencasts are without narration ATM.
Screencasts, Videos
Personal FlightSearch as desktop Application
Meta-search-like scenario. The user's flight query is mapped and executed on few existing flight search portals.
The results are unified, merged and provided back to the user in tabular view, offering additional actions like sorting.
Clicking on an item brings the user to the original flight operator, where the flight can be booked.
In this screencast the scenario is deployed and launched as a conventional single-scenario desktop application.
What you see here was implemented in 1 and half day, wherein the most of the time consumed the GUI design.
Firefox integrated generic player - showing CarSearch
The screencast demonstrates one possibility how the generic scenario player can be integrated with Firefox browser.
The generic player offers the user to run any of the downloaded scenarios.
A CarSearch scenario runs in this demo. It's very similar meta-search application to the FlightSearch, just it searches for cars by the local used car dealers.
Additionally to the previous demo, it shows also on-fly graph generation capabilities.
The meta-search scenarios are good use cases to demonstrate as they require broad range of processes to be involved. User query mapping, web-navigation and page manipulation, parallel processing, data extraction, transformation and merging. And finally, need for good results presentation and data manipulation functionality (like sorting) as well. Of course scenarios can be also very different from meta-search, GUI can be rich...
Presentations
University Presentation
The slides for the project presentations that were held in May-June 2006 on few universities in Europe.
Content: Sematic Web context; Web navigation, data extraction and processing overview and problems;
Meta-search example; FlightSearch; LumberJaczk project presentation: features, architecture, functionality;
Technical aspects and LumberJaczk internals; New and related projects.
More Screenshots
Personal CarSearch Scenario
LumberJaczk engine test suite
Generic player as desktop application