Network-based provisioning of custom-made and adaptive services offers unlimited opportunities for service development. Examples include ICT-based information, assistance, coordination, and remote monitoring services for senior citizens. Addressing diversity and unpredictable changeability requirements of such service platforms entails novel solutions. I present Web Pontoon, a method tailored specifically for handling these requirements by a combination of web content management, client-side end-user programming, closed-loop management of object lifecycles, and domain-driven design. I also explain how and why Smalltalk solutions constitute currently a unique framework for implementing this method.
Dr. Razavi has invested close to two decades in the Smalltalk software industry as a programmer, engineer, researcher and entrepreneur. He co-founded in late 2007 AAS, a start-up company based in Luxembourg and supported by the Ministry of Economy, to develop citizen-centric, flexible, and lightweight networked applications. Reza currently leads the research and development efforts of the firm. He also serves as Smalltalk solutions designer and developer.