Adobe Source Libraries
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Adobe Source Libraries are a set of libraries developed by Adobe
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 initially for their own use in the applications they publish and which they made open source
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These libraries provide functionality to define the GUI's definition and behavior. They are organized around two main modules Adam and Eve.
  • Adam offers the ability to specify the state chart
    State diagram
    A state diagram is a type of diagram used in computer science and related fields to describe the behavior of systems. State diagrams require that the system described is composed of a finite number of states; sometimes, this is indeed the case, while at other times this is a reasonable abstraction...

     driving a GUI
    Gui
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     element behavior.
  • Eve offers a GUI description language and a parser able to generate the described GUI from that description.
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