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The CloudBrowser web application framework

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Brian McDaniel,

Godmar BackAuthors Info & Claims

SPLASH '12: Proceedings of the 3rd annual conference on Systems, programming, and applications: software for humanity

Pages 141 - 156

https://doi.org/10.1145/2384716.2384768

Published: 19 October 2012 Publication History

Abstract

CloudBrowser is a web application framework that supports the development of rich Internet applications whose entire user interface and application logic resides on the server, while all client/server communication is provided by the framework. CloudBrowser thus hides the distributed nature of these applications from the developer, creating an environment similar to that provided by a desktop user interface library. CloudBrowser preserves the user interface state in a server-side virtual browser that is maintained across visits. Unlike other server-centric frameworks, CloudBrowser's exclusive use of the HTML document model and associated JavaScript execution environment allows it to exploit existing client-side user interface libraries and toolkits while transparently providing access to other application tiers. We have implemented a prototype of CloudBrowser as well as several example applications to demonstrate the benefits of its server-centric design.

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Cited By

Pan XBack GOssowski S(2016)Rich cloud-based web applications with CloudBrowser 2.0Proceedings of the 31st Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing10.1145/2851613.2851859(758-765)Online publication date: 4-Apr-2016
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2851613.2851859
Nakano YKamiyama NShiomoto KHasegawa GMurata MMiyahara H(2015)Web performance acceleration by caching rendering results2015 17th Asia-Pacific Network Operations and Management Symposium (APNOMS)10.1109/APNOMS.2015.7275434(244-249)Online publication date: Aug-2015
https://doi.org/10.1109/APNOMS.2015.7275434

Index Terms

The CloudBrowser web application framework
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Interaction paradigms
      1. Web-based interaction
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. Development frameworks and environments
      1. Integrated and visual development environments

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Pan XBack GOssowski S(2016)Rich cloud-based web applications with CloudBrowser 2.0Proceedings of the 31st Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing10.1145/2851613.2851859(758-765)Online publication date: 4-Apr-2016
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2851613.2851859
Nakano YKamiyama NShiomoto KHasegawa GMurata MMiyahara H(2015)Web performance acceleration by caching rendering results2015 17th Asia-Pacific Network Operations and Management Symposium (APNOMS)10.1109/APNOMS.2015.7275434(244-249)Online publication date: Aug-2015
https://doi.org/10.1109/APNOMS.2015.7275434

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