Publication Details

Conference Paper

2007

Proceedings of the Sixteenth International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), Banff, Canada, 8-12 May, 2007

978-1-59593-654-7

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The success of many innovative Web applications is not based on the content they produce - but on how they combine and link existing content. Older Web Engineering methods lack flexibility in a sense that they rely strongly on a-priori knowledge of existing content structures and do not take into account initially unknown content sources. We propose the adoption of principles that are also found in Component-based Software Engineering, to assemble highly extensible solutions from reusable artifacts. The main contribution of our work is a support system, consisting of a central service that manages n:m relationships between arbitrary Web resources, and of Web application components that realize navigation, presentation, and interaction for the linked content.

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