LiveView setup to migrate off AnyLogic

[Erikvv]

In the Agentic AI meeting last wednesday the constraints of the AnyLogic IDE were surfaced more forcefully than before.

I think the top friction we have for migrating off AnyLogic is that implementing the GUI will be harder.

It seems to me the most significant friction is that our front-end is preferably webbased but our simulation should be able to run on a powerful server. In the current paradigm of web development you would create an extensive schema in order to let the front-end fetch simulation data from the back-end.

AnyLogic gets around this problem by not shipping the data but instead shipping commands from the server to browser GUI components (and events the other way). Unfortunately with a limited set of components.

I would like to try out a variant of this approach.

Options:

• Vaadin
• Remote Compose
• Implement a custom renderer for Compose
• ...

Resources:

• https://proandroiddev.com/layoutnode-what-actually-happens-when-you-write-composable-05c0275875fa
• https://github.com/JetBrains/compose-multiplatform
• https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/482343980?pli=1

Concerns:

• can it handle intensive graphics like 3d?

Tasks:

• Research similar thin client architectures and solutions
• Create a proof-of-concept