Webrb: evaluating a visual domain-specific language for building relational web-applications

Authors:
Avraham Leff;James T. Rayfield
Affiliations:
IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY;IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY
Venue:
Proceedings of the 22nd annual ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming systems and applications
Year:
2007

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Abstract

Many web-applications can be characterized as "relational". In this paper we introduce and evaluate WebRB, a visualdomain-specific language for building such applications. WebRB addresses the limitations of the conventional "imperative-embedding" approach typically used to build relational web-applications. We describe the WebRB language, present extended examples of its use, and discuss the WebRB visual editor, libraries, and runtime. We then evaluate WebRB by comparing it to alternative approaches, and demonstrate its effectiveness in building relational web-applications.