虚拟实验平台离线机制分析-analysis of offline mechanism of virtual experiment platform.docxVIP

AbstractBecause Web applications provide good services for users in the offline situation, they become hot issues now. Many well-known companies and institutions have released offline applications on their own products such as Google’s Gmail, Google Doc, and Adobe’s AIR etc. The major use of offline applications’ scripts implemented as browser’s plug-ins, having strong platform portability features, but there are still disadvantages such as not support server and client co-development, not monitor network status immediately, which couldn’t meet the real-time requirements of online virtual experiment platform.Focused on offline applications’ demands of virtual experimental environment, the offline applications system’s mechanism (VEOAS) is designed and implemented to support virtual experiment platform, which solve the problems of saving and running scenes when network is disconnected. This system contains timing module, which starts for timing operation when network is disconnected; network monitoring module, which determines the network connectivity of the current situation, in order to confirm that get the experimental data from servers or local; database access module, which provides database storage and access interfaces to save the experimental data on the local, and offers data to experiment plug-ins when offline occurs; data exchange module, which is the middleware of servers and experiment plug-ins, for whom it provides interfaces; server-side caching module, which stores the experimental data on the server-side for data exchange module when network is disconnected. An Ajax-based monitoring network asynchronous idea is proposed to solve the problems such as timely detection of the network and get the network status immediately, and it can provide data transparently for users. Offline applications use server cache technologies to ensure TCP connections, and send the latest data to client according to users’ session number when the network is connected again.