Understanding UI Integration: A Survey of Problems, Technologies, and Opportunities
IEEE Internet Computing
Web mashup makers for casual users: a user experiment
Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services
Orchestrated user interface mashups using w3c widgets
ICWE'11 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Current Trends in Web Engineering
Inter-Widget communication by demonstration in user interface mashups
ICWE'13 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Web Engineering
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In the last decade user interface mashups have gained much interest both in academia and in industry. Their development paradigm enables end users to develop applications without dealing with complexities of the underlying technologies by using so-called widgets. However, user interface mashups haven't reached their full potential yet. Widgets are currently implemented in an isolated manner hindering seamless user-mashup interaction due to the need of manual state synchronization between widgets. Even though mashup run-time environments often enable inter-widget communication, current widget implementations surprisingly make use of it seldom. In this paper, we present a generic approach to semi-automatically extend widgets with dedicated inter-widget communication functionality. Thus, facilitating many cumbersome tasks of the end users when combining different widgets to a single application.