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End-user development of service-based interactive web applications at the presentation layer

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Tobias Nestler,

Abdallah Namoun, and

Alexander SchillAuthors Info & Claims

EICS '11: Proceedings of the 3rd ACM SIGCHI symposium on Engineering interactive computing systems

June 2011

Pages 197 - 206

https://doi.org/10.1145/1996461.1996521

Published: 13 June 2011 Publication History

Abstract

Lightweight service composition approaches are gaining a fast momentum in the integration landscape, among which is the integration/composition at the presentation layer where software components are integrated using their frontends, rather than application logic or data. This paper presents a new approach for composing web services through their user interfaces (UI) to form composite web applications in a purely graphical manner without the necessity to write any programming code. Unlike existing approaches, our service composition approach is shaped by a set of iterative user based evaluations to ensure no modeling or programming skills are required for web application development. Indeed our approach is tailored towards non-programmers. This paper provides an in-depth description of the general concepts and fundamental principles of our UI-centric design time approach, a brief description of our prototype, namely the ServFace Builder which serves as a proof of concept, and evaluation results.

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End-user development of service-based interactive web applications at the presentation layer
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. Development frameworks and environments
      1. Integrated and visual development environments

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EICS '11: Proceedings of the 3rd ACM SIGCHI symposium on Engineering interactive computing systems

June 2011

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ISBN:9781450306706

DOI:10.1145/1996461

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