XUP - a SOAP-based Simple User Interface Protocol

Jin Yu, School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052. Email: jyu@cse.unsw.edu.au

Boualem Benatallah, School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Email: boualem@cse.unsw.edu.au

Keywords

SOAP, User interface (UI), events, thin client, Web Services, XML protocol.

Abstract

The Extensible User Interface Protocol (XUP) is a SOAP based protocol for communicating events and incremental user interface updates on the web. It lays a foundation for developing and consuming highly interactive web applications and services. XUP is designed to serve as the UI front end for applications based on the Web Services architecture. XUP may be used with any user interface model or any event model with an XML based representation.