Web Intents: descoberta de serviços pelo lado cliente e modelo de execução

Abstract

Over the last years, we have seen the proliferation of sharing buttons in Web pages, such as "like”, "tweet", "g+", among others. We could be watching the beginning of a new technology that will allow integration between Web pages and service providers. There is an issue concerning how the integration between Web pages and service providers is done. Nowadays, in order to use the sharing buttons of a service provider, you need to use the code from this particular service provider. In programming, there is a recommendation that we should keep the code with low coupling and high cohesion. The fact that we rely on external code demonstrates an increase in coupling the source code. Web Intents and other similar technologies try to reduce this dependency by providing a standard interface that can be used by all service providers. This paper presents the Web Intents and similar technologies that address the interaction between Web pages and service providers. This also presents different views and discusses different views of people and companies involved in the creation of this standard on how this technology should work.