A development environment for building component-based open hypermedia systems

Wiil, Uffe Kock; Nürnberg, Peter J.; Hicks, David; Reich, Siegfried

doi:10.1145/336296.336507

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“…Applying structural computing to open hypermedia has already been explored via the work on Construct [22], Callimachus [19], FOHM [12] and others, allowing open hypermedia systems to support simultaneously many different hypertext domains (for instance, providing open hypermedia linking services over the spatially arranged structures of spatial hypertext). However, there is still room to explore how structural computing techniques can enable entirely new types of services within open hypermedia systems, especially with respect to the modeling of complex link structures that span multiple documents as single conceptual units (as may be enabled by structure templates).…”

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Structure and behavior awareness in themis

Anderson

Sherba

Lepthien

2003

Proceedings of the Fourteenth ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia

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Structural computing provides techniques and tools to ease the task of developing application infrastructure; infrastructure that provides common services such as persistence, naming, distribution, navigational hypermedia, etc., over a set of application-specific or domain-specific structures. Within structural computing, "structure" refers to a combination of data together with relationships pertaining to that data. Structure servers support the specification and manipulation of structures. One important aspect of structural computing is the power and flexibility it provides application developers constructing new applications. A large part of this power is due to structural computing's ability to provide awareness services for both structure and behavior. We define this concept and describe the awareness services provided by the Themis structural computing environment. The utility of these services are demonstrated by presenting the impact they have had on the InfiniTe information integration environment. In particular, these services help to increase the efficiency and reduce the size of domain-specific applications built using structural computing technology. We conclude by discussing how these services might influence the open hypermedia field and the development of new hypermedia services.

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“…The Construct development environment is a structuralcomputing based environment used to generate componentbased open hypermedia systems [22]. In particular, it provides a specification language and toolset to ease the task of constructing the services that modern open hypermedia systems provide.…”

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Structure and behavior awareness in themis

Anderson

Sherba

Lepthien

2003

Proceedings of the Fourteenth ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia

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“…Notably examples include HOSS (Nürnberg, 1997;Nürnberg et al, 1996), FOHM (Millard et al, 1992) and Construct (Wiil, 2000;Wiil et al, 2000) that will be described within this section.…”

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Structuring primitives in the Callimachus component-based open hypermedia system

Tzagarakis

Avramidis

Kyriakopoulou

et al. 2003

Journal of Network and Computer Applications

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Driven by the philosophy of the 'primacy of structure over data', Component-Based Open Hypermedia Systems (CB-OHS) present an open set of structure servers providing structural abstractions of different hypermedia domains. To address the emergent requirements and to facilitate the development of structure servers, structure should be handled as a first class entity. We propose patterns for structure, called templates, that define the structural model upon which structure servers operate. We present how structure servers are developed and operate in the Callimachus CB-OHS. Development of structure servers within Callimachus is based on the explicit specification of structure with the use of an atomic structural primitive called the structural element. Explicit structure specification eases the development of structure servers in CB-OHS, making such development less error prone and providing the basis for tailoring domain specific abstractions. q

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“…The Construct development environment [36,37] provides development tools that assist the system developers in the generation of set of services that make up a hypermedia system [37]. Construct could be extended in order (a) to support IDL to WSDL tools and (b) to rebuild CSC (Construct Service Compiler) so that it also creates a mapped Web Service based on the structure server, as outlined in Figure 6.…”

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Offering open hypermedia services to the WWW

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Pandis

Reich³

et al. 2003

Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on World Wide Web - WWW '03

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Hypermedia systems and more specifically open hypermedia systems (OHS) provide a rich set of implementations of different hypertext flavors such as navigational hypertext, spatial hypertext or taxonomic hypertext. Additionally, these systems offer component-based modular architectures and address interoperability between hypertext domains. Despite multiple efforts of integrating Web clients, a widespread adoption of OHS technology by Web developers has not taken place. In this paper it is argued that Web Services -which offer a component model for Web applications -can be integrated in OHSs. An architectural integration is proposed, a step-by-step process is outlined and an example of integration is provided. This very approach is aimed to benefit both worlds: the Web community with new rich hypermedia functionality that extends the current navigational hypermedia, and the OHS community by opening its tools and platforms to the many developer groups of the Web community.

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A development environment for building component-based open hypermedia systems

Cited by 17 publications

References 3 publications

Structure and behavior awareness in themis

Structure and behavior awareness in themis

Structuring primitives in the Callimachus component-based open hypermedia system

Offering open hypermedia services to the WWW

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