Specifying and controlling multi-channel web interfaces for enterprise applications
Matthias Book1
and Volker Gruhn1 
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Chair of Applied Telematics/e-Business, Department of Computer Science, University of Leipzig, Klostergasse 3, 04109 Leipzig, Germany |
Published online: 3 May 2007
Abstract When building enterprise applications that need to be accessed through a variety of client devices, developers usually strive
to implement most of the business logic device-independently while using a web browser to display the user interface. However,
when those web-based front-ends shall be rendered on different devices, their differing I/O capabilities may require device-specific
interaction patterns that still need to be specified and implemented efficiently. We present an approach for specifying the
dialog flows in multi-channel web interfaces with very low redundancy and introduce a framework that controls web interfaces’
device-specific dialog flows according to those specifications, while keeping the enterprise application logic completely
device-independent.
Keywords Web engineering - Architecture - Device independence - Dialog control
The Chair of Applied Telematics/e-Business is endowed by Deutsche Telekom AG.
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