An Authoring Technology for Multidevice Web Applications

Guruduth Banavar, Lawrence D. Bergman, Richard Cardone, Vianney Chevalier, Yves Gaeremynck, Frederique Giraud, Christine Halverson, Shin'ichi Hirose, Masahiro Hori, Fumihiko Kitayama, Goh Kondoh, Ashish Kundu, Kouichi Ono, Andreas Schade, Danny Soroker, Kim Winz

Abstract: The rapid proliferation of mobile computing devices has increased the complexity and cost of cross-platform application development. Multidevice authoring technology (MDAT) lets developers build a generic application common to multiple devices and customize it for specific devices. We developed MDAT an end-to-end development methodology and toolset, to reduce the complexity of creating interactive, form-based Web applications that execute on heterogeneous devices. Web application refers to conventional, servlet-based Web applications as well as portlet applications. A portlet is a Web application component that a Web portal server aggregates with other portlets.