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Chapter 17Designing Boundary ClassesPrototyping ToolsProgramming languages that use a visual development environment are often used to produce prototypes of software. These include: Visual Basic and Delphi. Most languages now have some kind of visual development environment, and Java IDEs also support this kind of visual composition of user interfaces. Eclipse is becoming the de facto standard for IDEs with its extensive range of plug-ins, and provides support for visual design of user interfaces.TCL together with TK (widget toolkit) provides a language for developing prototypes that can run in Windows or in X-Windows. There are links to software in TCL/TK on the Wiki. Software companies such as Grey Matter have a
wide range
of tools. There are frameworks for building user interface classes that can be
adopted. In Java, the most obvious of these are Struts and Java Server
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