Understanding UI Integration: A Survey of Problems, Technologies, and Opportunities

Daniel, Florian; Matera, Maristella; Yu, Jin; Benatallah, Boualem; Saint-Paul, Regis; Casati, Fabio

doi:10.1109/mic.2007.74

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“…One of the main contributions of mashups is the introduction of novel practices, enabling integration of available service and data at the presentation layer, in a component-based fashion -an aspect that so far has been scarcely investigated. Few papers, indeed, discuss and motivate the so-called UI-based integration [10,15,41] as a new component-based integration paradigm, which privileges the creation of fully-fledged artifacts, also equipped with UIs; this is in addition to the traditional service and data integration practices that, instead, mainly act at the logic and data layers of the application stack. In this direction, this article highlights how interactive artifacts can be composed by reusing the presentation logics (i.e., the UIs) and the execution logics of self-contained modules, the so-called Actionable UI Components, providing for the visualization of data extracted from data sources and for data manipulation operations through task-related functions.…”

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End-user composition of interactive applications through actionable UI components

Desolda

Ardito

Costabile

et al. 2017

Journal of Visual Languages & Computing

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Developing interactive systems to access and manipulate data is a very tough task. In particular, the development of user interfaces (UIs) is one of the most time-consuming activities in the software lifecycle. This is even more demanding when data have to be retrieved by accessing flexibly different online resources. Indeed, software development is moving more and more toward composite applications that aggregate on the fly specific Web services and APIs. In this article, we present a mashup model that describes the integration, at the presentation layer, of UI components. The goal is to allow non-technical end users to visualize and manipulate (i.e., to perform actions on) the data displayed by the components, which thus become actionable UI components. This article shows how the model has guided the development of a mashup platform through which non-technical end users can create component-based interactive workspaces via the aggregation and manipulation of data fetched from distributed online resources. Due to the abundance of online data sources, facilitating the creation of such interactive workspaces is a very relevant need that emerges in different contexts. A utilization study has been performed in order to assess the benefits of the proposed model and of the Actionable UI Components; participants were required to perform real tasks using the mashup platform. The study results are reported and discussed.

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End-user composition of interactive applications through actionable UI components

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Journal of Visual Languages & Computing

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“…In particular JOpera is focused on the integration logic layer of a mashup, and only provides limited support for building the user interface layer, where multiple widgets should be composed: in the case study, the construction of the user interface was "concentrated" within a single task of the workflow. An example of a complementary composition tool focused at the user interface layer [3] is Mixup [36].…”

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“…Whereas mashups have been positioned as composition done at the userinterface layer [3], the goal of this paper is to apply the notion composition to RESTful services independently of the user interface of the resulting application. Thus, considering the recursive property of software composition 1 , we argue that composing a set of RESTful services should result in another RESTful service, which can later be consumed by the user interface of a mashup application, or also be invoked by other composite RESTful services.…”

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Composing RESTful Services with JOpera

Pautasso

2009

Software Composition

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Abstract. The REST architectural style is emerging as an alternative technology platform for the realization of service-oriented architectures. In this paper, we apply the notion of composition to RESTful services and derive a set of language features that are required by composition languages for RESTful services: dynamic late binding, dynamic typing, content-type negotiation, state inspection, and compliance with the uniform interface principle. To show how such requirements can be satisfied by an existing composition language, we include a case-study using the JOpera visual composition language. In it, we present how to build a composite application (DoodleMap) out of some well-known, public and currently existing RESTful service APIs.

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“…Mashups can be seen as composition applied at the User Interface (UI)/Presentation layer [57], where a fully integrated UI is built out of reusable widgets applied to different data 612 sources. Mashups do not emphasize on the reusability of the composition, but only the ease with which it can be built [58].…”

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Service composition for IP smart object using realtime Web protocols: Concept and research challenges

Han

Khan

Lee

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Computer Standards & Interfaces

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Understanding UI Integration: A Survey of Problems, Technologies, and Opportunities

Cited by 131 publications

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End-user composition of interactive applications through actionable UI components

End-user composition of interactive applications through actionable UI components

Composing RESTful Services with JOpera

Service composition for IP smart object using realtime Web protocols: Concept and research challenges

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