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| [Ser09b] | Serrano, M. -- Anatomy of a Ubiquitous Media Center -- Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Multimedia Computing and Networking (MMCN'09), San Jose, CA, USA, Jan, 2009. |
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| The Web is such a rich architecture that it is giving birth to new applications that were unconceivable only few years ago in the past. Developing these applications being different from developing traditional applications, generalist programming languages are not well suited. To help face this problem, we have conceived the HOP programming language whose syntax and semantics are specially crafted for programming Web applications. In order to demonstrate that HOP, and its SDK, can be used for implementing realistic applications, we have started to develop new innovative applications that extensively rely on the infrastructure offered by the Web and that use features unique to HOP. We have initiated this effort with a focus on multimedia applications.
Using HOP we have implemented a distributed audio system. It supports a flexible architecture that allows new devices to catch up with the application any time: a cell phone can be used to pump up the volume, a PDA can be used to browse over the available musical resources, a laptop can be used to select the output speakers, etc. This application is intrinsically complex to program because, i- it is distributed (several different devices access and control shared resources such a music repositories and sound card controllers), ii- it is dynamic (new devices may join or quit the application at any time), and iii- it involves different heterogeneous devices with different hardware architectures and different capabilities. |
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| [Ser08b] | Serrano, M. -- Hop, a Fast Server for the Diffuse Web -- 2008. |
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| [Ser07d] | Serrano, M. -- The HOP platform -- Invited presentation at the International Lisp Conference'07, Cambridge, UK, Jun, 2007. |
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