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Live migration of JavaScript web apps

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James Lo,

Eric Wohlstadter,

Ali MesbahAuthors Info & Claims

WWW '13 Companion: Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on World Wide Web

Pages 241 - 244

https://doi.org/10.1145/2487788.2487912

Published: 13 May 2013 Publication History

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Due to the increasing complexity of web applications and emerging HTML5 standards, a large amount of runtime state is created and managed in the user's browser. While such complexity is desirable for user experience, it makes it hard for developers to implement mechanisms that provide users ubiquitous access to the data they create during application use. This work showcases Imagen, our implemented platform for browser session migration of JavaScript-based web applications. Session migration is the act of transferring a session between browsers at runtime. Without burden to developers, Imagen allows users to create a snapshot image that captures the runtime state needed to resume the session elsewhere. Our approach works completely in the JavaScript layer and we demonstrate that snapshots can be transferred between different browser vendors and hardware devices. The demo will illustrate our system's performance and interoperability using two HTML5 apps, four different browsers and three different devices.

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WWW '13 Companion: Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on World Wide Web

May 2013

1636 pages

ISBN:9781450320382

DOI:10.1145/2487788

General Chairs:
Daniel Schwabe
PUC-Rio - Brazil
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Virgílio Almeida
UFMG - Brazil
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Hartmut Glaser
CGI.br - Brazil
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Ricardo Baeza-Yates
Yahoo! Labs - Spain & Chile
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Sue Moon
KAIST - South Korea

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SIGWEB: ACM Special Interest Group on Hypertext, Hypermedia, and Web

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Published: 13 May 2013

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