The Webbridge Framework for Building Web-Based Agent Applications

Abstract. Web applications represent an important category of applications that owe much of their popularity to the ubiquitous accessibility using standard web browsers. The complexity of web applications is steadily increasing since the inception of the Internet and the way it is perceived changes from a pure information source to a platform for applications. Many dierent web frameworks exist that support recurring and tedious development tasks in order to simplify the process of building web applications. Most of the currently available web frameworks adhere to the widely accepted Model 2 design pattern that targets a clean separation of model, view and controller parts of an application in the sense of MVC. Nevertheless, existing frameworks are conceived to work with standard object-oriented business applications only and do not respect the particularities and possibilities of agent applications. Hence, in this paper a new architecture, in accordance with the Model 2 design pattern...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: LADS
• Authors: Alexander Pokahr, Lars Braubach
• Keywords: Dierent Web Frameworks, LADS 2007, Natural Language Processing, Web Applications, Web Frameworks