FrameTrail: um framework para o desenvolvimento de aplicações orientadas a trilhas

Abstract

This paper presents the FrameTrail, a framework for developing trail oriented applications. The FrameTrail aims to standardize the manipulation of trails regardless of its scope. The framework provides a number of features that manage the entity’s trail, without limiting the type of context and what the specifics information of the entities that applications developed based on this can handle. We present the internal components of the architecture of FrameTrail and also presents the structure of external providers. This external providers provides the framework so that applications can address the trails without the need to follow a technology model pre-established. Each of these providers can define which information relevant to their contexts, as well as lets you customize the way of how your data will be stored. The dissertation also describes the prototype of FrameTrail, as well as case studies designed to validate him and how they were directed to use the most of the functionalities provided by the framework.