The document discusses the future of web technologies with thin-server architectures. It outlines the history of web development from early desktop applications to modern rich internet applications. The thin-server architecture moves more functionality to the client side, making applications more scalable, cacheable, and stateless. Major companies are investing in client-side technologies like Google Web Toolkit, and emerging standards like HTML5 support more intelligent clients.

1. The future of the web with
the Thin-Server-Architecture
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Agenda
 History of Web-Technologies
 Analysis of Web-Architectures
 The Thin-Server-Architecture
 Advantages of TSA-webapps
 Example and Trends
 Discussion and Questions

3. Before the web was born
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Before
desktop-applications
with techniques and known patterns
like MVC since 1979
12 years later
The web was born
→ Need to invent totally new concepts
or
is it reinventing the wheel?

4. History of Web-Technologies
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5. Rich-Internet-Applications
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6. The MVC-Pattern
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7. Model-2 Architecture
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8. Mixed-Model-2 Architecture
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9. Mix of Server-Client-Code
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10. Code on Client and Server
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11. The Thin-Server-Architecture
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12. WYSIWYG-Code
and Clean Separation
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13. Static Content is Cacheable
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14. Possible Team-roles
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15. Scalability and Stateless
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16. Todays Infrastructure-Process
Client
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Single-String <h1>Olaf</h1>
Parsing
Class Student{
int grade;
getGrade{..}
setGrade(int grade){...}
Object-
Oriented-
Mapping
Relational- SELECT * FROM students
Storage
Server
DB
Parsing

17. TSA = SOA-Front-End-
Architecture = Loose coupling
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Vision:
Web-Oriented-Infrastructure

19. A possible future?
 Google: GoogleWebToolkit, Gmail,
GoogleDocs, JavaScript-APIs, …
 Apple: Appstore switched to Sproudcore-MVC
 Clientcentric Standards: HTML-5
(Multimedia, Offline-Database, Synchronizing,
WebSockets,...), CSS-3, ECMA-Script-5
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20. A possible future?
 Google: GoogleWebToolkit, Gmail,
GoogleDocs, JavaScript-APIs, …
 Apple: Appstore switched to Sproudcore-MVC
 Clientcentric Standards: HTML-5
(Multimedia, Offline-Database, Synchronizing,
WebSockets,...), CSS-3, ECMA-Script-5
 The future of web-applications?
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21. A possible future?
 Google: GoogleWebToolkit, Gmail,
GoogleDocs, JavaScript-APIs, …
 Apple: Appstore switched to Sproudcore-MVC
 Clientcentric Standards: HTML-5
(Multimedia, Offline-Database, Synchronizing,
WebSockets,...), CSS-3, ECMA-Script-5
 The future of web-applications?
→ What do you think?
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22. Discussion
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Questions?

23.  MVC-architecture pattern via JavaScript
 Ajax and DOM functionality via jQuery
 No server needed for development
 Java-JavaScript-Interpreter: Rhino
 Testing: browser based, command line,
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browser driver

24. Web-Infrastructure Challenge
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Summary
 Advantages of Rich-Internet-Applications
 Limits of web framework architecture
 Possibility and advantages of building
clientcentric apps
 Companies already invest in RIA-technologies
 The future?
Server Code Client

26. Intelligent clients
= more possiblities
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 JSONQuery/JSONPath
 JSON Referencing
 Comet Live Data Notifications
 JSON Schema with evolutionary constraints
 JSON-RPC
 Built-in Security
 Standards based REST interface

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REST
 It´s an architectural style
 Not a format or API
 The web has leveraged REST
 Can/should be used for web services
 One interface for all applications
 Manipulation of ressources over URL:
 GET, POST, PUT, DELETE

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Discussion
E-Mail:
David.Amend@it-amend.de

30. High Server Load
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31. Heavy State- and
Session-Management
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32. Web-Oriented-Architecture
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