Said differently, a web architecture should be comprised of decoupled components that communicated by a standard protocol. This was simply good design, albeit applied to a large problem space.

At the core of this headless architecture lies the concept of component-based development. These frameworks abstract the display and behavior of web applications into reusable and modular components.

The semantics of MVC triad components varies by architectural contexts. HTTP-based web MVC (WMVC) can be classified into three distinctive categories, sWMVC, dWMVC, and pWMVC.

Components that are well suited to a composable architecture include databases, application servers, web servers, caching systems, messaging systems and authentication systems.

Recent advancements have revitalized the reactive idea of the MVC architecture. In this article, Brent Chen and Victor Chen show how developers can leverage these new technologies.

First, there was SOA. Then Web 2.0. And most recently, SOA 2.0. Now, Gartner is promoting a concept it has dubbed Web-oriented architecture. “What we’re trying to do at Gartner is, if at all ...

Google has shipped Architecture Components 1.0, a stable version of the guidance and libraries package for helping developers construct Android apps. Launched as a preview at the Google I/O conference ...