El Hassane Ettifouri
ABSTRACT
Several approaches are available to create cross-platform applications. The majority of these approaches focus on purely mobile platforms. Their principle is to develop the application once and be able to deploy it to multiple mobile platforms with different operating systems (Android (Java), IOS (Objective C), Windows Phone 7 (C#), etc.). In this article, we propose a merged approach and cross-platform called ZCA "ZeroCouplage Approach". Merged to regroup the strong points of approaches: "Runtime", "Component-Based" and "Cloud-Based" thank to a design pattern which we created and named M2VC (Model-Virtual-View-Controller). Cross-platform allows creating a unique application that is deployable directly on many platforms: Web, Mobile and Desktop. In this article, we also compare our ZCA approach with others to approve its added value. Our idea, contrary to mobile approaches, consists of a given technology to implement cross-platform applications. To validate our approach, we have developed an open source framework named ZCF "ZeroCouplage Framework" for Java technology.
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