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The first Web site, created by Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau at CERN (European Nuclear Research Center), consisted of a collection of documents with static content, encoded in the HyperText Markup Language (HTML). Since then, the Web has evolved from an environment hosting simple and static hypermedia documents to an infrastructure for the execution of com- plex applications. Several technologies have enriched the scenario and the Web has progressively become a multi-domain platform, offering support not only for information delivery, but also for application execution. Nowadays, complex Web applications, such as eCommerce systems, large-scale corporate platforms, collaborative distributed environments, social networks, and mobile services, are almost omnipresent.
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Casteleyn, S., Daniel, F., Dolog, P., Matera, M. (2009). Introduction. In: Engineering Web Applications. Data-Centric Systems and Applications. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-92201-8_1
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