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Seamless integration of heterogeneous UI components

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Heiko Paulheim,

Atila ErdoganAuthors Info & Claims

EICS '10: Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGCHI symposium on Engineering interactive computing systems

Pages 303 - 308

https://doi.org/10.1145/1822018.1822067

Published: 19 June 2010 Publication History

Abstract

Component-based software engineering is a paradigm aiming at better ways to reuse existing code and to distribute work across teams. Integrating UI components developed with different technologies can be a difficult task which can quickly can lead to code-tangling and loss of modularity. In this demo, we present a prototype framework for integrating heterogeneous UI components, using RDF and formal ontologies for unambiguous event and data exchange and minimizing dependencies between integrated components. We will show an example from the emergency management domain using components written in Java and Flex and demonstrate tight, seamless integration, including dragging and dropping objects from Java to Flex and vice versa.

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Seamless integration of heterogeneous UI components
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software development techniques
      1. Reusability
  2. Software notations and tools
    1. Development frameworks and environments
      1. Integrated and visual development environments

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EICS '10: Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGCHI symposium on Engineering interactive computing systems

June 2010

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ISBN:9781450300834

DOI:10.1145/1822018

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IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
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Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium
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Newcastle University, UK

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Kaur LMishra A(2017)Software component and the semantic WebJournal of Systems and Software10.1016/j.jss.2016.11.028125:C(152-169)Online publication date: 1-Mar-2017
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1016/j.jss.2016.11.028
Paulheim HProbst F(2013)UI2Ont—A Formal Ontology on User Interfaces and InteractionsSemantic Models for Adaptive Interactive Systems10.1007/978-1-4471-5301-6_1(1-24)Online publication date: 2013
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-5301-6_1
Paulheim HAkerkar R(2011)Improving the usability of integrated applications by using interactive visualizations of linked dataProceedings of the International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics10.1145/1988688.1988711(1-12)Online publication date: 25-May-2011
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1988688.1988711
Paulheim HPecheur CAndrews JDi Nitto E(2010)Seamlessly integrated, but loosely coupledProceedings of the 25th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering10.1145/1858996.1859017(123-126)Online publication date: 20-Sep-2010
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1858996.1859017

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