iData For The World Wide Web - Programming Interconnected Web Forms (2006)
| Venue: | In Proceedings Eighth International Symposium on Functional and Logic Programming (FLOPS 2006), volume 3945 of LNCS |
| Citations: | 16 - 9 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Plasmeijer06idatafor,
author = {Rinus Plasmeijer and Peter Achten},
title = {iData For The World Wide Web - Programming Interconnected Web Forms},
booktitle = {In Proceedings Eighth International Symposium on Functional and Logic Programming (FLOPS 2006), volume 3945 of LNCS},
year = {2006},
pages = {24--26},
publisher = {Springer Verlag}
}
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Abstract
Abstract. In this paper we present the iData Toolkit. It allows programmers to create interactive, dynamic web applications with state on a high level of abstraction. The key element of this toolkit is the iData element. An iData element can be regarded as a self-contained object that stores values of a specified type. Generic programming techniques enable the automatic generation of HTML-forms from these types. These forms can be plugged into the web application. The iData elements can be interconnected. Complicated form dependencies can be defined in a pure functional, type safe, declarative programming style. This liberates the programmer from lots of low-level HTML programming and form handling. We illustrate the descriptive power of the toolkit by means of a small, yet complicated example: a project administration. The iData Toolkit is an excellent demonstration of the expressive power of modern generic (poly-typical) programming techniques.
