PUBLICATION
Distributed Event-based Communication for Web Components
Type
Conference Paper
Year
2016
Authors
Research Area
Event
Studierendensymposium Informatik 2016 der TU Chemnitz
Published in
Proceedings of Studierendensymposium Informatik 2016 der TU Chemnitz
ISBN/ISSN
978-3-944640-85-3
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Abstract
The set of new W3C standards called Web Components brings reuse-oriented, component-based application development to the Web. By providing custom element names, encapsulation and interoperability, developers are able to create components that can be reused in any HTML5-based web application. Polymer is a framework by Google Inc. that utilizes the opportunities of Web Components and hides the comprehensive set of technologies behind a declarative definition and adds additional features. Unfortunately, inter-component communication, which is required for application development by composition, is not covered by neither the W3C specifications nor the Polymer project. Therefore, we propose an approach to enable event-based communication for Web Components. We facilitate loosely coupling and support single- as well as multi-screen usage scenarios by providing publish/subscribe mechanisms and message distribution across multiple devices. To showcase the applicability of our approach, we present an extension to the Polymer framework as an exemplary implementation.
Reference
Krug, Michael: Distributed Event-based Communication for Web Components. Proceedings of Studierendensymposium Informatik 2016 der TU Chemnitz, pp. 133-136, 2016.
