Enabling an end-user driven approach for managing evolving user interfaces in business Web applications : a web application architecture using smart business object

Xufeng Liang, Athula Ginige

    Research output: Chapter in Book / Conference PaperConference Paper

    Abstract

    ![CDATA[As web applications become the centre-stage of today’s businesses, they require a more manageable and holistic approach to handle the rapidity and diversity with which changes occur in their web user interfaces. Adopting the End User Development (EUD) paradigm, we advocate an end-user driven approach to maintain evolving user interfaces of business web applications. Such an approach, demands a complementary web application architecture to enable a flexible, managed, and fine-grained control over the web user interfaces. In this paper, we proposed a web application architecture that embraces a dedicated UI Definition Layer, enforced by a web UI Model, for describing changes in the user interfaces of business web applications. This empowers business users to use intuitive web-based tools to effortlessly manage and create web user interfaces. The proposed architecture is realised through the Smart Business Object (SBO) technology we previously developed. We have also created a toolkit based on our proposed architecture. A tailored version of the toolkit has been utilised in an enterprise level web-based workflow application.]]
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationProceedings of the Second International Conference on Software and Data Technologies (ICSOFT 2007)
    PublisherInstitute for System and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication
    Number of pages1
    ISBN (Print)9789898111098
    Publication statusPublished - 2007
    EventInternational Conference on Software and Data Technologies,International Working Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering -
    Duration: 1 Jan 2007 → …

    Conference

    ConferenceInternational Conference on Software and Data Technologies,International Working Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering
    Period1/01/07 → …

    Keywords

    • web site development
    • end-user computing
    • application software
    • software architecture
    • requirements engineering
    • user interfaces (computer systems)

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