Relational Blocks: A Visual Dataflow Language for Relational Web-Applications

Authors:
Avraham Leff;James T. Rayfield
Affiliations:
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA;IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
Venue:
VLHCC '07 Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing
Year:
2007

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Abstract

Many web-applications can be characterized as "relational". In this paper we show that developers can greatly benefit from Relational Blocks, a visual, domain-specific, dataflow language that is designed to facilitate the construction of such web-applications. We define the Relational Blocks visual language, discuss our WebRB implementation, and show how WebRB is used to construct non-trivial web-pages.