An engineering perspective on structural computing: developing structure services for the web

  • Authors:

  • Michail Vaitis;Manolis Tzagarakis;George Gkotsis

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Geography, University of the Aegean, Mytilene, Greece;Research-Academic Computer Technology Institute, Patras, Greece;Department of Computer Engineering and Informatics, University of Patras, Patras, Greece

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Web Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

The emergence of Component-Based Open Hypermedia Systems aims at releasing hypermedia and web applications from the monocracy of link as an information structuring primitive. Instead, an open set of structure servers - each one providing abstractions and semantics relevant to a specific data-organization domain - are employed by an open set of client applications. Nonetheless, the lack of an engineering framework guiding the development and deployment process of structure servers has a part in their limited exploitation. In this paper, we analyze the characteristics of structure servers from an engineering approach, and we propose a software methodology and a set of potential tools in order to direct their development. In addition, we present how this methodology is supported by the Callimachus CB-OHS, emphasizing on the tools enabling rapid prototyping of new structure servers.