Creating Multi-platform User Interfaces with RenderXML

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Abstract

As the technology evolves, the existence of different computational devices has made ad hoc software development no longer acceptable in the development of multi-platform software applications. This chapter describes RenderXML, a software tool developed to facilitate the creation of multi-platform applications. RenderXML acts as a renderer, mapping concrete user interfaces (UI) described in UsiXML to multiple platforms, and also as a connector, linking the rendered UI developed in one language to functional core code developed possibly in a different programming language.

Keywords

User Interface Component Functional Core Multiple Platform Concrete User Interface User Interface Description 
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Acknowledgments

This research is partially funded by CNPq (LIFAPOR/CNPq-Grices Project).

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.Institute of InformaticsFederal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Av. Bento GonçalvesBloco IV, Porto AlegreRS,

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