rich Internet Applications are widely used as they are interactive and user friendly. Automated tools for crawling rich Internet Applications have become needed for many reasons such as content indexing or testing for...
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Web applications have come a long way, both in terms of adoption to provide information and services, and in terms of the technologies to develop them. With the emergence of richer and more advanced technologies such ...
Web applications have come a long way, both in terms of adoption to provide information and services, and in terms of the technologies to develop them. With the emergence of richer and more advanced technologies such as AJAX, web applications have become more interactive, responsive and user friendly. These applications, often calledrich Internet Applications (rIAs), changed the web applications in two ways: (1) dynamic manipulation of client-side state and (2) asynchronous communication with the server. However, at the same time, such techniques also introduced new challenges. One important challenge is the difficulty of automatically crawling these new applications. Without crawling, rIAs cannot be indexed nor tested automatically. Traditional crawlers are not able to handle these newer technologies. This paper surveys the research on addressing the problem of crawling rIAs and provides some experimental results to compare existing crawling strategies. In addition, we provide some future directions forresearch on crawling rIAs.
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