PUBLICATION
Enriching Web Applications with Collaboration Support Using Dependency Injection
Type
Conference Paper
Year
2012
Authors
Franz Josef Grüneberger
Thomas Springer
Research Area
Event
International Conference on Web Engineering 2012
Published in
Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Web Engineering
ISBN/ISSN
978-3-642-31752-1
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Abstract
Web-based collaboration tools such as Google Docs are pervasive in our daily lives since they have proven to efficiently support joint work of distributed teams. Nevertheless, the development of web-based groupware systems is a time-consuming and costly task because developers either have to become familiar with specific groupware libraries or are asked to re-implement concurrency control services (i.e. document synchronization, conflict resolution). Therefore, we propose a dependency injection mechanism using declarative annotations to incorporate concurrency control services into web applications. Instead of adopting comprehensive libraries or implementing application-specific components, synchronization capabilities are integrated in a lightweight and rapid fashion. To validate the approach, we enriched the widely-adopted Knockout framework with dependency injection facilities and transformed two Knockout-based applications into collaborative ones.
Reference
Heinrich, Matthias; Grüneberger, Franz J.; Springer, Thomas; Gaedke, Martin: Enriching Web Applications with Collaboration Support Using Dependency Injection. Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Web Engineering, pp. 473-476, 2012.
