Conceptual Design and Implementation of a Toolkit Platform for the development of EMIS based on the Open Source Plugin-Framework Empinia

Abstract

This contribution describes concepts and implementation of an extendible tools platform for the development of Environmental Information Management Systems (EMIS), which is based on the open source software framework Empinia. Empinia eases the development of graphical rich client applications for the .NET environment based on plugins which can easily be extended. On top of Empinia the EMIS toolkit platform adds generic functionality for the EMIS application domain and forms a common structure for applications built to provide software assistance that addresses actual problems in the application field of EMIS. Software application developers benefit from this toolkit in a way that they can focus in a straight forward manner on close-to-the-problem functionality instead of having to spend much effort in the development of basic software infrastructure before.