REST inspired code partitioning with a JavaScript middleware

Abstract

The Web has become a commonly used programming environment for a number of types of applications, and to a great extent, applications that would have formerly been implemented as desktop systems are now run inside the browser. Numerous approaches have been proposed for application development on the Web, but it is not obvious how the different approaches fit together. In this paper, we introduce a middleware platform intended for composing JavaScript applications. When using the middleware applications are implemented solely using JavaScript in a fashion, where the client side of applications runs inside the browser, whereas the server side gains advantage from a newly emerged activity, CommonJS. © 2010 Springer-Verlag.