A Web application framework that uses a client-side container model to minimize the amount of server communications. Instead of loading an entire HTML page each time a user clicks a link or button on the page, the framework either handles the click locally or requests a smaller block of data from the server in an XML format on demand or asynchronously behind the scene.
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Java Web Application Frameworks
Tony C. Shan (Bank of America, USA) and Winnie W. Hua (CTS Inc., USA)
Copyright: © 2008
|Pages: 8
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59140-993-9.ch039
Abstract
In the information systems environment, a framework is a well-defined structural and behavioral model in which applications can be organized and developed. A framework may consist of a variety of artifacts to help design, develop and glue together various components of an application, such as common services, interfaces, reusable modules, code utilities, scripting capability, technology stack, runtime environment, integration, security, platform, process, persistence, storage, communications, and other packages/libraries.