Development of an advanced JAVA based Simulation Tool

On top of the object oriented discrete event simulation library JAVA-Sim, developed at the University of Wuppertal, a modern comfortable graphical user interface GUI has been designed. For the ease of use the modeling interface has a flexible and easy to use control concept. The user interface is strictly separated from the core simulation classes. In order to feed the demand of a general simulator as well as the demands of an easy to use print-media-production simulator a consequent design and class structure has been required. Therefore the priority for designing the tool has focused on a very straight class design. The concept has been designed with an clear structured interface between the core simulation library and the GUI in order to allow the use of the core library only respectively the use of the tool by the GUI without any change of the libray