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Specifying and controlling multi-channel web interfaces for enterprise applications

Matthias BookContact Information and Volker GruhnContact Information

(1)  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.

Contact Information Matthias Book (Corresponding author)
Email: book@ebus.informatik.uni-leipzig.de

Contact Information Volker Gruhn
Email: gruhn@ebus.informatik.uni-leipzig.de

Matthias Book   is a doctoral candidate at the Deutsche Telekom Chair of Applied Telematics/e-Business at the University of Leipzig. His research interests are in the specification and control of dialog and data flows in web-based applications, with a special focus on designing for device independence. He is a co-author of over 25 refereed publications in international software and web engineering conferences and journals.
Volker Gruhn   is a full professor and holder of the Deutsche Telekom Chair of Applied Telematics/e-Business at the University of Leipzig. His research interests are in agile model-driven development, especially in methods for the development of mobile, distributed software systems. He is author and co-author of about 120 national and international publications. In the 1990s, Volker Gruhn worked at the Fraunhofer Institute for Software and Systems Engineering (ISST) and was a member of the executive board of a software company of Veba AG. He subsequently became professor for applied computer science at the University of Dortmund, with a research focus on the development of component-based software architectures and e-business applications. He is founder and chairman of the board of software company adesso AG.
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