Title :
An authoring technology for multidevice Web applications
Author :
Banavar, Guruduth ; Bergman, Lawrence ; Cardone, Richard ; Chevalier, Vianney ; Gaeremynck, Yves ; Giraud, Frederique ; Halverson, Christine ; Hirose, Shin-ichi ; Hori, Masahiro ; Kitayama, Fumihiko ; Kondoh, Goh ; Kundu, Ashish ; Ono, Kohichi ; Schade, A
Author_Institution :
IBM Thomas J. Watson Res. Center, Hawthorne, NY, USA
Abstract :
The rapid proliferation of mobile computing devices has increased the complexity and cost of cross-platform application development. Multidevice authoring technology (MDAT) lets developers build a generic application common to multiple devices and customize it for specific devices. We developed MDAT an end-to-end development methodology and toolset, to reduce the complexity of creating interactive, form-based Web applications that execute on heterogeneous devices. Web application refers to conventional, servlet-based Web applications as well as portlet applications. A portlet is a Web application component that a Web portal server aggregates with other portlets.
Keywords :
Internet; Java; authoring systems; hypermedia markup languages; mobile computing; portals; MDAT; Web portal; cross-platform application development; mobile computing device; multidevice authoring technology; portlet; servlet-based Web application; Computer applications; Costs; HTML; Home appliances; Internet; Iterative methods; Personal digital assistants; Portals; Runtime; Writing;
Journal_Title :
Pervasive Computing, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MPRV.2004.1321033