Design Features for the Social Web: The Architecture of Deme

8th International Workshop on Web-Oriented Software Technologies

Todd R. Davies ; Mike D. Mintz

Others  :  http://CEUR-WS.org/Vol-493/iwwost2009-davis.pdf
PID  :  11590

来源: CEUR

【 摘 要 】

We characterize the “social Web” and argue for several features that are desirable for users of socially oriented web applications. We describe the architecture of Deme, a web content management system (WCMS) and extensible framework, and show how it implements these desired features. We then compare Deme on our desiderata with other web technologies: traditional HTML, previous open source WCMSs (illustrated by Drupal), commercial Web 2.0 applications, andopen-source, object-oriented web application frameworks. The analysis suggests that a WCMS can be well suited to building social websites if it makes more of the features of object-oriented programming, such as polymorphism, and class inheritance, available to nonprogrammers in an accessible vocabulary.