Developing application independent interfaces for workstations in a distributed environment

Authors:
Michael A. Bauer;Henry K. Ting
Affiliations:
The Department of Computer Science, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, N6A 5B7;The Department of Computer Science, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, N6A 5B7
Venue:
Proceedings of the 1986 ACM SIGSMALL/PC symposium on Small systems
Year:
1986

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Abstract

The development of suitable user interfaces to applications can be a difficult task. This task is further complicated when designing applications to operate in a distributed environment where one could take advantage of powerful workstations. This paper reports on current work investigating approaches for specifying and designing application interfaces in a distributed environment. In the approach being investigated, the application's interface is specified separately from the application code itself and can be interpreted by a user interface manager (UIM). The UIM can be operational on a workstation and the application code executed on a different host. The paper presents an overview of the general model, briefly describes one approach for the definition of interfaces and outlines how the UIM and the application communicate.