PUBLICATION
Construction by Linking: The Linkbase Method
Type
Conference Paper
Year
2007
Authors
Event
Sixteenth International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2007)
Published in
Proceedings of the Sixteenth International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2007)
ISBN/ISSN
978-1-59593-654-7
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Abstract
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.