The SQL-based All-Declarative FORWARD Web Application Development Framework

Summary: FORWARD is an SQL-based, all-declarative framework that unifies browser UI, server application logic, and database access to remove the language-impedance mismatch in web apps. Declarative specs for app logic, data integration and AJAX partial updates replace plumbing code, improving responsiveness and developer productivity. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 177
Venue: CIDR
Year: 2011
Pagerank: 5.704861e-05
Overall Rank: 7,097 | 51.31%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Yupeng Fu (University of California San Diego)
2. Kian Win Ong (App2you Inc.)
3. Yannis Papakonstantinou (App2you Inc.; University of California San Diego)
4. Michalis Petropoulos (State University of New York at Buffalo; University of California San Diego)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{fu_cidr11,
        address = {Amsterdam, Netherlands},
        series = {{CIDR} '11},
        title = {{The SQL-based All-Declarative FORWARD Web Application Development Framework}},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {Conference} on {Innovative} {Data} {Systems} {Research}},
        author = {Fu, Yupeng and Ong, Kian Win and Papakonstantinou, Yannis and Petropoulos, Michalis},
        year = {2011}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
445	Apache Calcite: A Foundational Framework for Optimized Query Processing Over Heterogeneous Data Sources	2018	SIGMOD	0.00018336751

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 5 of 5 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
25	NiagaraCQ: A Scalable Continuous Query System for Internet Databases	2000	SIGMOD	0.00054667018
1,159	Relational Transducers for Electronic Commerce	1998	PODS	0.00011898742
2,333	Query Processing for High-Volume XML Message Brokering	2003	VLDB	8.7376556e-05
3,398	A Verifier for Interactive, Data-driven Web Applications	2005	SIGMOD	7.4467496e-05
8,219	Ajax-based Report Pages as Incrementally Rendered Views	2010	SIGMOD	5.4642154e-05

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