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Composer: meeting non-functional aspects of hypermedia authoring environment

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This paper discusses the importance of non-functional requirements in the design of hypermedia authoring tools, which typically provides multiple graphical abstractions (views). It focuses on creating products and services that operate robustly across a broad range of environments, and that take into account the changeable needs of their users over time, as they become more familiar with the tool. In order to meet these non-functional aspects, this paper proposes a microkernel-based architecture for authoring tools, where the microkernel is responsible for instantiating the requested extensions (plugins), maintaining the core data model that represents the hypermedia document under development, and notifying changes in this model to plugins interested in them. Based on the proposed architecture, a new version of Composer (an NCL authoring tool) is presented, rewritten from scratch. Results from experiments show that the discussed non-functional requirements are adequately met.

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  1. Today, QT has support to the following desktop platforms: Windows, Linux/X11, Mac OS X, MeeGo; and the following mobile platforms: Windows CE and Mobile, Embedded Linux, Symbian, and Maemo. A complete list of the QT supported platforms is available at: http://doc.qt.nokia.com/4.7-snapshot/supported-platforms.html

  2. http://www.telemidia.puc-rio.br/~edcaraujo/libqncg

  3. Evaluations presented in Figs. 14, 15, and 16 were performed in a machine with a Core 2 Duo 2.52 GHz processor and 4Gb of memory running GNU/Linux Ubuntu 11.10.

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The authors would like to thank Carlos Salles and all TeleMidia Lab’s researchers who provided a thoughtful discussion of this work. The authors also thank CNPq, CAPES and MCT for their support.

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    Roberto Gerson A. Azevedo, Eduardo Cruz Araújo, Bruno Lima, Luiz Fernando G. Soares & Marcelo F. Moreno

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Azevedo, R.G.A., Araújo, E.C., Lima, B. et al. Composer: meeting non-functional aspects of hypermedia authoring environment. Multimed Tools Appl 70, 1199–1228 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-012-1216-8

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