WebRB: A Different Way to Write Web Applications

Author

Leff, Avraham ; Rayfield, James T.

Author_Institution

IBM T.J. VVatson Res. Center, Cambridge, MA

Volume

12

Issue

3

fYear

2008

Firstpage

52

Lastpage

61

Abstract

Relational Blocks (RBIocks) is a visual dataflow language for writing multipage interactive applications that access, transform, and display relational data in a GUI. The authors present WebRB, an implementation of RBIocks for a Web application environment. It´s deployed as a software service; developers run the WebRB visual editor in a standard Firefox Web browser and store their page designs and data on the WebRB server. WebRB is a different way to write Web applications because it uses visual page designs, lacks imperative code, and uses relational semantics.

Keywords

Internet; graphical user interfaces; online front-ends; parallel languages; visual languages; Firefox Web browser; GUI; Web Applications; WebRB; WebRB server; graphical user interfaces; relational blocks; relational data; visual dataflow language; Application software; Assembly; Graphical user interfaces; HTML; Java; Logic; Standards development; Visual databases; Web pages; Writing; declarative programming; programming web applications; relational algebra; relational blocks; relational model; software as a service; visual programming languages; web relational blocks;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Internet Computing, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1089-7801

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MIC.2008.69

Filename

4510881