Xul-based Web Services Cross-platform Software Development Methodology

With the development and increasing application of compute technology, various kinds of platforms have been studied in theory and deployed in production environmebnt to provide critical business functions. People can choose the most suitable platform system easily, but were troubled by migrating between different platforms. Sometimes people even have to build the whole system again. In addition, computer configuration was improved with the quick development of hardware bring. So people usually waste a lot of hardware resource, when they use the systems based on Thin Client.Aim at thus problems, the dissertation advanced a cross platform software development method basing on XUL and combining with Web Service. This method combines the new User Interface criterion-XUL with the mature technology-Web Service, and exert both of their advantagy adequately to bring forward an efficiency method on developing cross platform software fleetly. It is suitable for quickly developing cross platform software with small type, becase of its legerity, agility and no need to be compiled.At the beginning, the author studys some relation techonology and theoretics, and then bring forward the method basing on XUL. After that, the Chapter Three analysts this method, and compares it with several popular methods of Rich Client Software development. For detailed discussion, the Chapter Four and the Chapter Five demonstrate a system implement in the new method. In particular the design, the technology, the develop flow and the implement of the system is provided in detail. At last the dissertation summarizes the content and shows what should be improved in next step.