Developer Conference 2014

Contemporary user interface (UI) design tangles multiple different interests together, which results in increased efforts of its development and maintenance. In addition, information captured in backend parts of the system is being restated in the UI part, which negatively impacts maintenance and may cause its inconsistency. In this talk we present aspect-driven approach that suggests separating various UI interests and concerns, and enables their reuse among the system. This runtime approach allows us to reduce development and maintenance efforts, mitigate inconsistency errors, and to build low effort adaptive UIs. Our open-source framework is deployed in production at Java EE 6 application at ACM-ICPC system. We present benefits of this concept, experiences received from its production use and impact on system maintenance.