A scalable, lightweight WebOS application framework

Abstract

Frequently, as applications scale, they are considered in the context of a web OS-based architecture. In support of this goal, we present a lightweight framework designed as a middleware application. This architecture is highly influenced by hypermedia-based techniques, leveraging metadata in the context of HTML5. Our framework relies on a novel incorporation of a number of open source technologies including node.js and couchDB to support priorities of fast-prototyping, scalability and maintainability. Initial experiments have demonstrated that our approach performs effectively among the dynamics of our environment. © 2012 IEEE.