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The Implementation of iData

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Implementation and Application of Functional Languages (IFL 2005)

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The iData Toolkit is a toolkit that allows programmers to create interactive, type-safe, dynamic web applications with state on a high level of abstraction. The key element of this toolkit is the iData element. An iData element is a form that is generated automatically from a type definition and that can be plugged in in the web page of a web application. In this paper we show how this automatic generation of forms has been implemented. The technique relies essentially on generic programming. It has resulted in a concise and flexible implementation. The kernel of the implementation can be reused for any graphical package. The iData Toolkit is an excellent demonstration of the expressive power of modern generic (poly-typical) programming techniques.

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  1. Software Technology, Nijmegen Institute for Computing and Information Sciences, Radboud University, Nijmegen

    Rinus Plasmeijer & Peter Achten

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  2. University of Lübeck, Germany

    Clemens Grelck

  3. Institute of Computer Science, University of Kiel, 24098, Kiel, Germany

    Frank Huch

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Plasmeijer, R., Achten, P. (2006). The Implementation of iData. In: Butterfield, A., Grelck, C., Huch, F. (eds) Implementation and Application of Functional Languages. IFL 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4015. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11964681_7

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