Designing mashup view navigations using data binding approach

Abstract

Client-based web mashups have become one of the most important architectures in web application development. However, navigation between views and service requests is still developed manually in most web mashups. In this paper, we propose the concept of deterministic data binding between output data and the input parameters of another method for a given set of data mappings between services. The data binding approach provides a model to generate context menus for navigating and requesting services with a simple and convenient interface. Without any user intervention, the context-dependent binding relations allow a reasonable size of necessary method connections even when the number of services and the size of the mashup page grow. In order to show the usability of the proposed approach, we present an example of a historical tourism service web page. © 2012 Springer-Verlag.