(1480) Avalanche framework - "coding-by-conventions" in Web development

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Tuesday, 2007-06-26, 17:30 - 18:10, Arena 6

Nemanja Kostic - Youngculture AG (speaker)

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Abstract

"Avalanche" framework is a Web framework used for extracting, presenting and manipulating data coming from any kind of data source - database, proprietary CMS's, filesystems, Webservices etc. Why is "Avalanche" different to other existing Web frameworks? "Avalanche" introduces a real coding-by-conventions concept in Web development. It is a component based framework, where each component is described with its corresponding object model. Components can depend on each other, meaning that action on one component can trigger actions of many other components on one HTML page - avalanche effect. "Avalanche" is fully Ajax based with reverse Ajax functionalities (server-push). "Avalanche" differentiates from other existing frameworks in a way that it brings development one step closer to a data source while hiding all complexity of a Web development from HTML page customizers and system integrators. Concept of "Avalanche" is best fitted to teams with a clear separation of development roles. Web designers, HTML prototypers, customizers and system integrators can work in parallel and can focus on their field of expertise without a need to learn some other technologies for fulfilling their tasks. Customizers and system integrators (who are creating data adapter to an existing data source) have an object model as a contract between them. They should not care about HTTP request/response parameters passing, action generation, Ajax logic etc. Data adapter developers should fill object model with data from the data source and HTML customizers should put those data in specific HTML slots. How data are actually generated and transfered, how actions are passed to server, how components communicate between each other etc., it is all a responsibility of the "Avalanche" framework. "Avalanche" framework has proven its concept in a number of use cases and client's projects.