Enabling "Smart Spaces:" Entity Description and User Interface Generation for a Heterogeneous Component-based Distributed System (1998) [3 citations — 0 self]
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author = {Todd Hodes and Randy Katz and Y Katz},
title = {Enabling "Smart Spaces:" Entity Description and User Interface Generation for a Heterogeneous Component-based Distributed System},
booktitle = {In DARPA/NIST Smart Spaces Workshop},
year = {1998},
pages = {DARPA/NIST.}
}
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This paper motivates and describes a document-centric framework for component-based distributed systems. In the framework, XML documents are associated with programs that provide either static, immutable interface descriptions as advertisements of functionality at the server-side, or specification of manipulations of these server descriptions to express their usage at clients. We illustrate how the framework allows for 1) remapping of a portion of an existing user interface to a new room control (for example, due to movement of the terminal) 2) viewing of arbitrary subsets andcombinations of the functionality available, and 3) mixing dynamically-generated user interfaces with existing user interfaces. Theuse of a document-centric framework in addition to a conventional object-oriented programming language provides a number of key features. One of the most useful is that it exposes program/UI to referent objects mappings, thereby providing a standard location for manipulation of this in...
