Jdesk Web-based Discrete Event Simulation Kernel

Web-based simulation is a powerful skill for e-learning. Simulation gives concrete answers to the students questions. Having a Virtual Simulation Laboratory is possible when using web-based simulation. This paper presents JDESK, a web-based discrete event simulator written in Java. It is fast, versatile and powerful enough to manage whatever system. This simulator allows to describe and to change a model easily. JDESK may be used as a prototyper. Although it allows simulating any system behavior, it includes libraries containing predefined behaviors to allow students define simple models easily. This simulator allows changing dynamically system topology. Any continuous or discrete behavior may be included in the system. JDESK can manage models with high complexity and size. The programmer only focuses on the model description, not in events or programming bugs. The effort to describe a behavior can be reused (in the same model or others). JDESK includes an assistant to guide the user in the model definition process.