Web application (WA) expands its usages to provide more and more services and it has become one of the most essential communication channels between service providers and the users. To augment the users’ experience many web applications are using client side scripting languages such as JavaScript but this growing of JavaScript is increasing serious security vulnerabilities in web application to...

e Bay’s launch of its API in November 2000 marked the beginning of an era in which Web applications offer services for third-party application integration. The rapid growth of programmatic interfaces for Web applications has recently revolutionized online content integration and created new opportunities for vendors to build developer ecosystems. According to ProgrammableWeb, a leading service ...

Reducing their energy consumption has become an important concern for many people lately. A necessary step to save energy is to raise consumption awareness, that is: to realize how much electricity is consumed by household appliances. We propose a system that uses and extends intelligent power outlets called Plogg, which contain sensor nodes to wirelessly measure the energy consumption of vario...

Software reuse is considered one of the most effective ways of achieving higher productivity improvement. In this paper we propose an object persistency reuse framework to overcome the issues such as database connection handling problems, time consuming unit testing for database access modules, and larger maintenance cost due to the frequent changes in the target applications specifications. Th...

In this article we present the design of a database adapter for the Google Datastore and the Vaadin Rich Internet Application Framework. The adapter allows us to develop Vaadin applications that can use different database systems and can be deployed in a private infrastructure as well as in the Google App Engine platform. The adapter uses a two-level cache schema to improve performance and redu...

Security in WEB applications has become a major concern for the scientific and business communities today. An increasing amount of money is being spent for handling information security. . Therefore, giving the proper importance of handling information security, the paper focuses on: definitions of software security, vulnerabilities and risks, dealing with various threats and vulnerabilities, t...