A client-based customization framework for web applications using JNLP

摘要

Web personalization and customization are increasingly becoming important services for web users. The conventional approaches used in implementing these services often lead to poor responsiveness, lengthy network delays, client privacy violations, simple interfaces, and so on. This research addresses an improved model to implement customizable web applications running on the client machine. We use the Java Network Launching Protocol (JNLP) to implement the model, which employs pure client-side user interface-generation techniques to provide display and content customization and personalization services. We develop two versions of a billing application, one using the new approach and the other using the conventional one. We show through performance comparisons how the response time of web applications is improved through storing and processing personal data and settings on the client's own machine.