Framework for thin-server web applications

• US 9,992,268 B2
• Filed: 09/27/2013
• Issued: 06/05/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 09/27/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Inventors: Atsatt, Bryan, Pericas-Geertsen, Santiago Martin
• Primary Examiner(s): Zhen, Wei
• Assistant Examiner(s): Bourzik, Brahim
• Application Number:
  US14/039,514
• Publication Number:
  US 20140089395A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,712 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/20 Software design
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/36 Software reuse
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/60 Software deployment
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/131 Protocols for games, networked simulations or virtual reality

Abstract

In various aspects, a framework is provided for building rich, responsive, and mobile-enabled HTML 5 web applications. In one embodiment, the framework is based on a thin server architecture (TSA) that uses REST, SSE, and WebSocket to communicate with the server side. This framework, sometimes referred to herein as ‘Avatar’ is a modular, end-to-end web development framework for building enterprise mobile and desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML5 and a thin-server architecture.

Claims

1. A method for deploying web-based applications, the method comprising:

receiving, at one or more computer systems, a declarative specification of a web-based application in accordance with a modular, end-to-end web development framework, the specification defining a view module for a client, a page associated with the view module of the client, and a model module for the client, wherein the web-based application is an HTML5 web-based application, and

wherein the end-to-end web development framework comprises a compiler, a container, one or more core modules, one or more view modules that provide user interface components, and one or more server modules that support services of the one or more view modules in order to provide client code and server code in the single deployable archive in accordance with the declarative specification of the HTML5 web-based application;

generating, with one or more processors associated with the one or more computer systems, files needed for the execution of the HTML5 web-based application by the client and a server in a single deployable archive in accordance with the declarative specification, wherein the end-to-end web development framework includes client-side application code and server-side application code in the single deployable archive,

wherein data bindings for the view module for the client are automatically generated; and

deploying, with the one or more processors associated with the one or more computer systems, the web-based application.

18. The method according to claim 1, wherein the view module is according to an Avatar framework.

19. The method according to claim 1, wherein the server and the client communicate according to one of a REST interface, a Server Sent Events (SSE) interface, and a Web Socket interface.

20. The method according to claim 1, wherein the data binding for the view module of the client comprises automatic data binding of a view model and a corresponding view component.

21. The method according to claim 1, wherein the page associated with the view module for the client is identified according to a page identifier (ID).

22. The method according to claim 1, wherein the modular, end-to-end web development framework uses JavaScript, HTML5, and a thin-server architecture.

23. The method according to claim 1, wherein during one of compile time and deploy time, the end-to-end web development framework generates static content based on the client code, and wherein the static content is changed in response to one of redeployment or recompilation of the application.

2. A system for deploying web-based applications, the system comprising:

a processor; and

a memory configured to store a set of instructions which when executed by the processor configure the processor to;

receive a declarative specification of a web-based application in accordance with a modular, end-to-end web development framework, the specification defining a view module for a client, a page associated with the view module of the client, and a model module for the client, wherein the web-based application is an HTML5 web-based application, and

wherein the end-to-end web development framework comprises a compiler, a container, one or more core modules, one or more view modules that provide user interface components, and one or more server modules that support services of the one or more view modules in order to provide client code and server code in the single deployable archive in accordance with the declarative specification of the HTML5 web-based application;

generate files needed for the execution of the HTML5 web-based application by the client and a server in a single deployable archive in accordance with the declarative specification, wherein the end-to-end web development framework includes client-side application code and server-side application code in the single deployable archive,

wherein data bindings for the view module are automatically generated; and

deploy the web-based application.

3. A method for application lifecycle management, the method comprising:

deploying an application archive to a server, the archive including an application specification defining an application in accordance with a modular, end-to-end web development framework and a set of supporting files referenced in the application specification, wherein the web-based application is an HTML5 web-based application, and

wherein the end-to-end web development framework comprises a compiler, a container, one or more core modules, one or more view modules that provide user interface components, and one or more server modules that support services of the one or more view modules in order to provide client code and server code in the single deployable archive in accordance with the declarative specification of the HTML5 web-based application;

compiling and generating files needed for the execution of the application by a client and the server in the archive in accordance with the application specification, wherein the archive is a single deployable archive, wherein the end-to-end web development framework includes client-side application code and server-side application code in the single deployable archive, and wherein data bindings are automatically generated;

receiving a request to access the HTML5 web-based application;

deploying user interfaces portions of the application to a client; and

managing service requests to a server from the client, wherein the server executes services portions of the web-based application and the client executes view portions of the web-based application.

4. The method of claim 3 wherein the compiling and generating step is adapted to be controlled by a debugging mode.

5. The method of claim 3 wherein the compiling and generating step further includes optimizing the files needed for execution of the application by a client or a server by customizing one or more libraries used by the application.

6. The method of claim 3 wherein the compiling and generating step further includes optimizing the files needed for execution of the application by a client or a server by including only a portion of one or more libraries used by the application.

7. The method of claim 3 wherein the compiling and generating step further includes optimizing the files needed for execution of the application by a client or a server by generating an initial resource bundle configured to facilitate localization of the application;

and

wherein variations of the initial resource bundle are automatically detected and deployed.

8. The method of claim 3 wherein the application specification is an XML file including elements having HTML data elements or JavaScript data elements.

9. The method of claim 8 further comprising performing early error detection of the HTML data elements or the JavaScript data elements.

10. The method of claim 3 wherein the compiling and generating step further includes optimizing the files needed for execution of the application by a client or a server by optimizing or compiling a portable representation of application logic.

11. The method of claim 10 wherein the portable representation of application logic includes JavaScript.

12. The method of claim 10 wherein Java byte code is compiled from the portable representation of application logic.

13. The method of claim 10 wherein a portion of optimized or compiled application logic is adapted for a client scripting engine and a portion of the optimized or complied application logic is adapted for an virtual machine of a server or native execution on the server.

14. The method of claim 3 further comprising automatically deploying one or more libraries needed by the application to a server for use by a client based on the application specification.

15. The method of claim 3 wherein the compiling and generating step further includes optimizing the files needed for execution of the application by a client or a server by processing one or more templates.

16. The method of claim 3 wherein the compiling and generating step further includes optimizing the files needed for execution of the application by a client or a server for handling a plurality of namespaces for JavaScript files.

17. The method of claim 3 wherein the compiling and generating step further includes optimizing the files needed for execution of the application by a client or a server by processing a portion of the application specification that reconfigures or adds additional functionality to a complier of the application.