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Reports of the Death of the Web are Greatly Exaggerated: Towards Real Web Applications for Mobile Devices

The software industry is currently experiencing two parallel paradigm shifts – one towards web-based software and another towards web-enabled mobile devices. The resulting convergence of desktop, mobile and web application development has already unleashed the development of entirely new types of web-based software systems. These new systems, built to leverage the vast capabilities of the World Wide Web, allow the use of dynamically downloaded applications and services from any type of terminal, including both desktop computers and mobile devices. Furthermore, the applications use the available resources in unforeseen ways, and imply radical changes to the ways people develop, deploy and use software. In this paper, we summarize our experiences in developing such applications with a family of purely web-based software systems. We also briefly review some recent technologies and trends that are making the Web a better place for real applications, not just for documents.

Index Terms: D Software/Software Engineering, D.1 Programming Techniques, D.1.8 Distributed programming, D.2 Software Engineering, D.2.0.c Software engineering for Internet projects, D.2.1 Requirements/Specifications, D.2.10 Design, D.2.11 Software Architectures, D.2.17 Software Construction, D.2.2 Design Tools and Techniques, C.2 Communication/Networking and Information Technology, Multimedia Information Systems, H.3.5 Online Information Services, web programming, web applications, Pervasive computing, mobile applications, Internet applications, database technology, Computer-supported cooperative work, H.5.4 Hypertext/Hypermedia, D Software/Software Engineering, C.2.8 Mobile Computing, D.2.7.e Evolving Internet applications, D.3.2.r Scripting languages,Citation: Tommi Mikkonen, Antero Taivalsaari, "Reports of the Death of the Web are Greatly Exaggerated: Towards Real Web Applications for Mobile Devices," Computer, 31 Mar. 2011. IEEE computer Society Digital Library. IEEE Computer Society, Usage of this product signifies your acceptance of the Terms of Use.

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