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A Layered Approach to Dedicated Application Builders Based on Application Frameworks

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In this paper we investigate what is needed to make user interface builders incrementally refinable. The need for dedicated user interface builders is motivated by drawing a parallel with programming language design and object-oriented application frameworks. We show that reflection techniques borrowed from the programming language community can be successfully applied to make user interface builders incrementally refinable.

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  1. Programming Technology Lab, Brussels Free University, Pleinlaan 2, 1050, Brussel, Belgium

    Patrick Steyaert, Koen De Hondt & Serge Demeyer

  2. OO Partners bvba, Romeinse steenweg 464, 1853, Strombeek-Bever, Belgium

    Marleen De Molder

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  1. School of Computing, Information Systems and Mathematics, South Bank University, 103 Borough Road, SE1 0AA, London, UK

    Dilip Patel , Yuan Sun  & Shushma Patel ,  & 

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Steyaert, P., De Hondt, K., Demeyer, S., De Molder, M. (1995). A Layered Approach to Dedicated Application Builders Based on Application Frameworks. In: Patel, D., Sun, Y., Patel, S. (eds) OOIS’94. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3016-1_21

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