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Hypermedia-Driven Framework for Scalable and Adaptive Application Sharing

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This chapter describes our experiences designing a solution for scalable and adaptive sharing of desktop and mobile applications, using a lightweight network-based system compliant with the REST architectural style. The system delivers consistency of the rendered user interfaces with the state of the application logic using a stateless networking substrate. We describe the architecture focusing on how to model the user interfaces as a set of web resources. Then, we present the prototype that implements the functionality as an extension of the Qt framework, which works with different Qt-based user interface toolkits. Finally, we present a multi-display and multi-user Texas Hold’em application that shows how the system is used in practice.

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    http://www.pyside.org/.

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    http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/software/pyqt/intro.

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    http://www.tornadoweb.org/.

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    http://www.cloudsoftwareprogram.org.

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    http://www.tivit.fi.

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    http://www.tekes.fi.

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Acknowledgements

We would like to thank Saku Tiainen for developing the Texas Hold’em application used for testing, and the referee who provided feedback and suggestions that improved the content of this manuscript. The research was completed in the Cloud Software ProgramFootnote 4 of the Strategic Centre for Science, Technology and Innovation in the Field of ICT (TIVIT),Footnote 5 and was partially funded by the Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation (TEKES).Footnote 6

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Stirbu, V., Savolainen, J. (2011). Hypermedia-Driven Framework for Scalable and Adaptive Application Sharing. In: Wilde, E., Pautasso, C. (eds) REST: From Research to Practice. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8303-9_8

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