The WebComfort Framework: An Extensible Platform for the Development of Web Applications

Abstract

Content management systems (CMSs) are critical software platforms for the success of organizational web sites and intranets. Although most current CMS systems allow their extension through the addition of modules/components, such modules are usually relatively static, allowing only the configuration of certain parameters that constrain some aspects of their presentation.This paper presents the architecture of WebComfort, a dynamic component-based CMS platform which allows users to manage and operate complex web applications in a dynamic and integrated fashion. The major technical details of this system are described in this paper, such as modules, toolkits, the data repository access, and the WebComfort API.