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Aranea: web framework construction and integration kit

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Jevgeni KabanovAuthors Info & Claims

PPPJ '06: Proceedings of the 4th international symposium on Principles and practice of programming in Java

Pages 163 - 172

https://doi.org/10.1145/1168054.1168077

Published: 30 August 2006 Publication History

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Currently there exist dozens of web controller frameworks that are incompatible, but at the same time have large portions of overlapping functionality that is implemented over and over again. Web programmers are facing limitations on code reuse, application and framework integration, extensibility, expressiveness of programming model and productivity.In this paper we propose a minimalistic component model Aranea that is aimed at constructing and integrating server-side web controller frameworks in Java. It allows assembling most of available web programming models out of reusable components and patterns. We also show how to integrate different existing frameworks using Aranea as a common protocol. In its default configuration Aranea supports both developing sophisticated user interfaces using stateful components and nested processes as well as high-performance stateless components.We propose to use this model as a platform for framework development, integration and research. This would allow combining different ideas and avoid reimplementing the same features repeatedly. An open source implementation of Aranea framework together with reusable controls, such as input forms and data lists, and a rendering engine are ready for real-life applications.

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Pietschmann SVoigt MMeissner K(2009)Dynamic Composition of Service-Oriented Web User InterfacesProceedings of the 2009 Fourth International Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services10.1109/ICIW.2009.38(217-222)Online publication date: 24-May-2009
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/ICIW.2009.38
Coyne MGraham SHopkinson KKurkowski SJefferson TFowler JIngalls R(2008)A methodology for unit testing actors in proprietary discrete event based simulationsProceedings of the 40th Conference on Winter Simulation10.5555/1516744.1516924(1012-1019)Online publication date: 7-Dec-2008
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/1516744.1516924

Index Terms

Aranea: web framework construction and integration kit
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Concurrent computing methodologies
    1. Concurrent programming languages
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. Development frameworks and environments
      1. Integrated and visual development environments
    2. General programming languages
      1. Language features
      2. Language types
        Concurrent programming languages

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PPPJ '06: Proceedings of the 4th international symposium on Principles and practice of programming in Java

August 2006

230 pages

ISBN:3939352055

DOI:10.1145/1168054

General Chairs:
Ralf Gitzel
University of Mannheim (Germany)
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Markus Aleksy
University of Mannheim (Germany)
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Martin Schader
University of Mannheim (Germany)

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Pietschmann SVoigt MMeissner K(2009)Dynamic Composition of Service-Oriented Web User InterfacesProceedings of the 2009 Fourth International Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services10.1109/ICIW.2009.38(217-222)Online publication date: 24-May-2009
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/ICIW.2009.38
Coyne MGraham SHopkinson KKurkowski SJefferson TFowler JIngalls R(2008)A methodology for unit testing actors in proprietary discrete event based simulationsProceedings of the 40th Conference on Winter Simulation10.5555/1516744.1516924(1012-1019)Online publication date: 7-Dec-2008
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/1516744.1516924

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