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FDX: federating devices and web applications

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Johannes Meinecke,

Andreas HeilAuthors Info & Claims

ICWE '06: Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Web engineering

Pages 95 - 102

https://doi.org/10.1145/1145581.1145603

Published: 11 July 2006 Publication History

Abstract

Electronic devices have been used for the support of everyday tasks in domestic and professional environments for some time now. Currently, there is a tendency towards a combined application of individual gadgets that are connected within locally confined environments via a diversity of protocols and technologies like UPnP, WLAN and Bluetooth. As one step further in this direction, there is the vision of devices that are globally and uniformly connected through the WWW, extending the Mobile Web to a Ubiquitous Web. Hence, this allows for scenarios where actions on one device can trigger events on an arbitrary other device, and where third-party Web services from anywhere in the world are involved. Ultimately, this results in federations of devices and Web services belonging to different households, companies, suppliers and service providers, forming new kinds of Web applications that integrate devices as an additional dimension. To fulfill this vision, solutions are required that are able to abstract from the different device implementations and bridge the gap between the device and the Web. In this paper, we present the Federated Device Assembly (FDX) approach that offers an integrated management platform for wrapping and as such connecting arbitrary devices to enable new forms of Web applications along with the means to model such federations. Furthermore, we demonstrate how the required infrastructure systems can be realized by introducing a reference architecture and a generic Web service interface.

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Cited By

Weis TSaternus MKnoll MBrändle ACombetto MMihalic K(2006)Towards a general purpose user interface for service-oriented context-aware applicationsProceedings of the international workshop in conjunction with AVI 2006 on Context in advanced interfaces10.1145/1145706.1145717(53-55)Online publication date: 23-May-2006
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1145706.1145717

Index Terms

FDX: federating devices and web applications
1. Information systems
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. Context specific languages
      1. Interface definition languages
  2. Software organization and properties
    1. Software system structures
      1. Distributed systems organizing principles
        Organizing principles for web applications

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ICWE '06: Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Web engineering

July 2006

384 pages

ISBN:1595933522

DOI:10.1145/1145581

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University of San Francisco, USA
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University of Western Sydney, Australia

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Weis TSaternus MKnoll MBrändle ACombetto MMihalic K(2006)Towards a general purpose user interface for service-oriented context-aware applicationsProceedings of the international workshop in conjunction with AVI 2006 on Context in advanced interfaces10.1145/1145706.1145717(53-55)Online publication date: 23-May-2006
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1145706.1145717

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