Web Application Design Patterns and Best Practices

1. Introduction

• Introduction to Design Patterns
• Describing Software Architectures by means of Design Patterns
• Classifying Patterns
• Pattern Description Languages
• ...

2. Common Challenges in (Semantic) Web Application Development

• Web Application Architecture
• Stateless HTTP
• Challenges specific to Sematic Web
• ...

3. Typical Web Application Patterns Identified

• Model 2/MVC
• Front Controller (aka. Central Dispatcher)
• Separating content from presentation
• Continuation
• Session
• Data Source Adapter
• ...

4. References:
[1] http://jerry.cs.uiuc.edu/~plop/plop2003/Papers/weiss-web.pdf
[2] http://jerry.cs.uiuc.edu/~plop/plop98/final_submissions/P56.pdf
[3] http://jerry.cs.uiuc.edu/~plop/plop2001/accepted_submissions/PLoP2001/ebfernandez0/PLoP2001_ebfernandez0_1.pdf
[4] http://www.bioagent.net/WWWPublications/Download/SEKE02.pdf
[5] http://webapparch.sourceforge.net/