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10. User Interface Integration

Jos Jong1 
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AMSTELVEEN, The Netherlands
 

As far as the customer is concerned, the interface is the product.

—Jef Raskin

Even the most obscure nonintegrated user interface (UI) client can benefit from the integration that we have achieved on the server so far. By making sure that implicit services can be expressed in a human readable JSON-over-HTTP format, the VIA architecture is open to any client, UI or not.

In addition, the perfect granularity of implicit services gives a client full control over the data streams to and from the back end. This means that as long as we stay within the defined data model, we can ...

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