Section: Application Domains

Web Development

Current content representation practices and programming methods for the web remain severely limited. Designing web applications is becoming increasingly complex as it relies more and more on a jungle of programming languages, tools and data formats, each targeted toward the different application layers (presentation, application and storage). This often yields complex and opaque applications organized in silos, which are costly, inefficient, hard to maintain and evolve, and vulnerable to errors. In addition, the communication aspects are often handled independently via remote service invocations and represent another source of complexity and vulnerability.

Most research activities in WAM address these issues and try to cope with the fundamentals aspects of web applications (advanced content, data and communication) by studying rich document formats, data models and communication patterns, to offer correction guarantees and flexibility in the application architecture. For instance, applications need to be checked, optimized and managed as a whole while leveraging on the consistency of their individual components and data fragments.