Adapting traditional web applications to the new user interfaces provided by rich internet applications

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2009

Authors

Nélson Bilber Rodrigues (Author) FEUP; Lino Oliveira (Author) FEUP; António Fernando Vasconcelos Cunha Castro Coelho (Author) FEUP

Conference proceedings International

Title: Proceedings of the IADIS WWW/Internet 2009 International Conference

Pages: 395-398

IADIS WWW/Internte 2009

Roma, Itália, 19 a 22 de Novembro

Indexing

Scopus

Scientific classification

FOS: Engineering and technology > Electrical engineering, Electronic engineering, Information engineering

CORDIS: Technological sciences > Technology > Internet technology ; Technological sciences > Technology > Interface technology > Virtual reality

Other information

Abstract (EN): Rich Internet Applications (RIA) technology leads to new opportunities in Web development, adding a new level of usability and overcoming several limitations of traditional Web applications. However, there are still a few gaps in RIA development, namely the lack of methodologies enabling direct evolution of traditionally developed Web applications into this new concept. This paper describes a methodology to adapt User Interfaces (UI) from Web 1.0 into Web 2.0 introducing RIA capabilities, maintaining the business logic and data access layers legacy. The main system architecture is maintained and the new concept is achieved by adding a new Web services encapsulation layer responsible to intermediate the business logic layer and the new UI layer, providing a seamless and dynamic integration. For validating this methodology, a prototype was developed by applying and evaluating the suggested methodology. The results obtained validate that this methodology is appropriate for the given problem.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 4