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Components for Building Desktop-Application-Like Interface in Web Applications

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Web Technologies Research and Development - APWeb 2005 (APWeb 2005)

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Web-based applications have become ubiquitous over the past few years. These applications rely on a simple document markup language called HTML. However, the click-and-link interface provide by HTML-based technology is too limited for building next generation highly interactive Web applications. Hence, we investigate a technique based on a highly interactive rich internet application approach for building desktop-application-like web applications. We discuss the design and architecture of our client and server components, show the efficient use of client, server, and network resources, and conduct server-side component performance evaluations. Usability, universality, reusability and usefulness of our components are our primary objectives. Desktop graphical user interface features such as drag-and-drop, image zoom-in, and folder navigation are now possible for building web-based applications using our components.

Supported in part by the RTR 2004-2005 and SpF 2004 Research Grant from ORSP at Kean University.

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  1. Mathematics and Computer Science Department, Kean University, 1000 Morris Avenue, Union, N.J., 07083

    George Chang & Pedro Calixto

  2. Design and Technology, Parsons School of Design, 10th Floor, 2W 13th Street, New York, N.Y., 10011

    Jung-Wei Hsieh

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  1. Victoria University, Australia

    Yanchun Zhang

  2. University of Kyoto, Japan

    Katsumi Tanaka

  3. Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

    Jeffrey Xu Yu

  4. Key Laboratory of Data Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, Renmin University of China, MOE, 100872, Beijing, P.R. China

    Shan Wang

  5. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiatong University, 80 Dongcuan Road, 200240, Shanghai, China

    Minglu Li

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Chang, G., Hsieh, JW., Calixto, P. (2005). Components for Building Desktop-Application-Like Interface in Web Applications. In: Zhang, Y., Tanaka, K., Yu, J.X., Wang, S., Li, M. (eds) Web Technologies Research and Development - APWeb 2005. APWeb 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3399. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-31849-1_92

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