WebRB: A different way to write web applications

Abstract

Relational Blocks (RBLOCKS) is a visual dataflow language for writing multipage interactive applications that access relational data, transform relational data, and display relational data in a GUI. WebRB is an implementation of RBLOCKS for a Web-application environment. WebRB is deployed as a software service: developers run the WebRB visual editor in a standard Firefox Web browser and store their page designs and data on the WebRB server. Applications are deployed on a server that interprets visual page designs as Web pages and manages the application's inter-page navigation and associated data-flows. WebRB is a different way to write Web applications because of the use of visual page designs, the lack of imperative code, and use of relational semantics. © 2008 IEEE.