5. Conclusion

Vision is an application framework for distributed visualization of technical processes, which promises to increase productivity by speeding up the creation of new applications. Although an impact on productivity compared to development on the basis of the most widespread GUI initially was not one of the primary design goals, the slim object-oriented programming interface of Vision showed a high potential in that direction when the test applications were implemented.

The design goals for efficiency have been attained by consequent modularization of its components and the use of object-oriented design techniques. The qualities claimed for performance, fault-tolerance and failure safety on a station level have been verified in the test phase.

 

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