Specifically, Chiron can be used with Sun Microsystem's DevGuide tool to create artists. The Chiron server manages all aspects of the user interface that are not artist or application specific. The server receives ADH instructions from the artists and uses them to create and manipulate an internal abstract representation of the graphical interface. The Chiron server provides flexibility in terms of windowing systems and toolkits, application languages, and process inter-connection topology. The Chiron model is highly concurrent.
Most components maintain their own, and possibly multiple, threads of control.
Thus, unlike most user interface architectures, Chiron avoids imposing sequential control upon applications, allowing the application, the user interface, and the server, to run in parallel. Chiron has been described several places in the open literature. Richard N. Taylor and Gregory F. Johnson. Amsterdam, April 1993. Chiron has been developed using the gcc compiler v2.5.8.