Developing customizable Web-based educational applications through a component-based framework

Although there are many Internet-based educational applications available today, they usually do not allow functionality extensions, change or reuse. In this context, this paper presents a framework - the WebMODE, based on the J2EE component architecture, for helping the development of more customizable educational applications. This framework merges important features from popular content management systems (such as pluggable modules) to the model view controller architecture, found in popular frameworks for Web development.