Specifying and Controlling Multi-Channel Web Interfaces for Enterprise Applications

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

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: EDOC
• Authors: Matthias Book, Volker Gruhn
• Keywords: Dialog, EDOC 2006, Enterprise Application, Operating System, Web Interfaces