Navigating between objects. Lessons from an object-oriented framework perspective

The main goal of this paper is to present a general architecture for building computational hypermedia applications, i.e. those applications that combine the hypermedia navigational style with other kinds of computations in an object-oriented system. We first motivate our work discussing why these kind of applications need special attention. Then, we briefly present the architecture and components of an object-oriented framework that allows extending object-oriented applications with hypermedia features. Finally, and as the main contribution of this paper, we discuss the most important design decisions behind the framework, presenting them as a set of micro-architectural constructs that yield a general architecture for integrating object-oriented and hypermedia applications.