Orchestrated User Interface Mashups Using W3C Widgets

Wilson, Scott; Daniel, Florian; Jugel, Uwe; Soi, Stefano

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-27997-3_5

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“…Chaotic situations are most probably to arise in an open environment when several self-determining widgets respond to the same/different events in a distributed and uncontrolled way. Wilson et al (2011), in their recent work that partially coincides with our predecessor study (see Soylu, Wild, Mödritscher, Desmet, Verlinde and De Causmaecker, 2011), define three UI mashup models supporting widget responsiveness, namely Orchestrated UI mashups, Choreographed UI mashups, and Hybrid UI mashups. Orchestrated UI mashups refer to the case where interactions between widgets are defined explicitly and managed centrally.…”

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Mashups by orchestration and widget‐based personal environments

Soylu

Mödritscher

Wild

et al. 2012

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Purpose -Mashups have been studied extensively in the literature; nevertheless, the large body of work in this area focuses on service/data level integration and leaves UI level integration, hence UI mashups, almost unexplored. The latter generates digital environments in which participating sources exist as individual entities; member applications and data sources share the same graphical space particularly in the form of widgets. However, the true integration can only be realized through enabling widgets to be responsive to the events happening in each other. The authors call such an integration "widget orchestration" and the resulting application "mashup by orchestration". This article aims to explore and address challenges regarding the realization of widget-based UI mashups and UI level integration, prominently in terms of widget orchestration, and to assess their suitability for building web-based personal environments. Design/methodology/approach -The authors provide a holistic view on mashups and a theoretical grounding for widget-based personal environments. The authors identify the following challenges: widget interoperability, end-user data mobility as a basis for manual widget orchestration, user behavior mining -for extracting behavioral patterns -as a basis for automated widget orchestration, and infrastructure. The authors introduce functional widget interfaces for application interoperability, exploit semantic web technologies for data interoperability, and realize end-user data mobility on top of this interoperability framework. The authors employ semantically enhanced workflow/process mining techniques, along with Petri nets as a formal ground, for user behavior mining. The authors outline a reference platform and architecture that is compliant with the authors' strategies, and extend W3C widget specification respectively -prominently with a communication channel -to foster standardization. The authors evaluate their solution approaches regarding interoperability and infrastructure through a qualitative comparison with respect to existing literature, and provide a computational evaluation of the behavior mining approach. The authors realize a prototype for a widget-based personal learning environment for foreign language learning to demonstrate the feasibility of their solution strategies. The prototype is also used as a basis for the end-user assessment of widget-based personal environments and widget orchestration. Findings -The evaluation results suggest that the interoperability framework, platform, and architecture have certain advantages over existing approaches, and the proposed behavior mining techniques are adequate for the extraction of behavioral patterns. User assessments show that widget-based UI mashups with orchestration (i.e. mashups by orchestration) are promising for the creation of personal environments as well as for an enhanced user experience. Originality/value -This article provides an extensive exploration of mashups by orchestration and their role in the creation of pers...

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Mashups by orchestration and widget‐based personal environments

Soylu

Mödritscher

Wild

et al. 2012

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“…In the literature there are other notable works that are not directly related to cloud computing, but with GUIs built from components or services. In (Wilson et al, 2012) the authors analyzed the features of building mashup GUIs by using widgets of the W3C and carried out a proposal to extend the widget model. The reason for aiming to extend this model is to give support to a variety of patterns of communication between components.…”

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A cloud service for COTS component-based architectures

Vallecillos

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Padilla

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Computer Standards & Interfaces

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The management of software architectures is an important subject, especially in component-based web user interfaces to enhance their accessibility, dynamism and management at run-time. The Cloud offers some favorable mechanisms for this kind of systems, since it allows us to manage the software remotely, guarantees high availability of the resources and enables us to perform mass-storage. This article presents an infrastructure solution, based on the use of web services and cloud computing, for managing COTS-based architectures.

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“…Using server-side technologies means going through the server each time we have a simple intra-page UI synchronization, which degrades the overall user experience. It could however be possible to use different client-side UI componentization technologies, such as W3C widgets (again based on JavaScript), for which we are already studying suitable mashup models [29].…”

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Distributed orchestration of user interfaces

Daniel¹,

Soi²,

Tranquillini³

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Information Systems

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a b s t r a c tWorkflow management systems focus on the coordination of people and work items, service composition approaches on the coordination of service invocations, and, recently, web mashups have started focusing on the integration and coordination of pieces of user interfaces (UIs), e.g., a Google map, inside simple web pages. While these three approaches have evolved in a rather isolated fashion -although they can be seen as evolution of the componentization and coordination idea from people to services to UIs -in this paper we describe a component-based development paradigm that conciliates the core strengths of these three approaches inside a single model and language. We call this new paradigm distributed UI orchestration, so as to reflect the mashup-like and process-based nature of our target applications. In order to aid developers in implementing UI orchestrations, we equip the described model and language with suitable design, deployment, and runtime instruments, covering the whole life cycle of distributed UI orchestrations.

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Orchestrated User Interface Mashups Using W3C Widgets

Cited by 30 publications

References 4 publications

Mashups by orchestration and widget‐based personal environments

Mashups by orchestration and widget‐based personal environments

A cloud service for COTS component-based architectures

Distributed orchestration of user interfaces

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