Title :
Relational Blocks: A Visual Dataflow Language for Relational Web-Applications
Author :
Leff, Avraham ; Rayfield, James T.
Author_Institution :
IBM T.J. Watson Res. Center, Yorktown Heights
Abstract :
Many Web-applications can be characterized as "relational". In this paper we show that developers can greatly benefit from relational blocks, a visual, domain-specific, dataflow language that is designed to facilitate the construction of such web-applications. We define the relational blocks visual language, discuss our WebRB implementation, and show how WebRB is used to construct non-trivial web-pages.
Keywords :
Internet; relational databases; visual languages; nontrivial Web-pages; relational Web-applications; relational blocks; visual dataflow language; Algebra; Data mining; Graphical user interfaces; HTML; Java; Logic functions; Relational databases; USA Councils; Visual databases; Web pages;
Conference_Titel :
Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, 2007. VL/HCC 2007. IEEE Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Coeur d´Alene, ID
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-2987-5
DOI :
10.1109/VLHCC.2007.11
