Developing Mineotaur

Software used to create Mineotaur

Server side:

• Programming language: Java 8
• Build system: Apache Maven
• Database: Neo4j
• Web framework: Spring Boot
• Template engine: Thymeleaf
• Test framework: TestNG
• Continous integration tool: Travis CI
• Bytecode manipulation tool: Javassist
• Command line parsing: Apache Commons CLI
• Math package: Apache Commons Math

Client side:

• Script and markup languages: Javascript, HTML 5, CSS
• Front-end framework: Twitter Bootstrap
• Visualization: D3
• HTML manipulation: jQuery
• jQuery UI library: jQuery-UI
• jQuery spinner: spin.js
• jQuery blockUI plugin: jquery.blockui.js
• jQuery form plugin: jquery.form.js
• jQuery history plugin: history.js
• jQuery context menu: jeegoocontext
• jQuery modal widget: Magnific Popup
• jQuery multiselect widget: jQuery UI MultiSelect widget
• jQuery modal widget: Magnific Popup
• AMD framework: RequireJS
• General utility collection: Underscore
• Math library: numbers.js
• Regression library: regression.js
• ZLib Javascript library: Pako

Architecture of Mineotaur

The Mineotaur web server can be accessed from both a web interface and programatically using REST. The web server handles the interaction with the graph database containing the HT/HCS data.

Server side architecture

The web server if based on the Spring Model-View-Controller (MVC), using Thymeleaf as a template engine. The data is stored in the Neo4j graph database. A web client can access the content by making an HTTP request to the server, which will query the appropriate data from the database and render a web page from a Thymeleaf template.

Client side architecture

On the client side, all interaction is done using a Javascript application. The application is modular, with different modules responsinble to handle events (Controller), carry data values (Context), manipulate web pages (UI), generate plots (Plot) and provide general functionalities (Utilities).