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Remote UI BoF V. Stirbu
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LRDP: The Lightweight Remote Display Protocol
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Abstract
This memo describes an application layer protocol for a framework
that enables accessing graphical user interface (GUI) applications
remotely, so that devices with different form factors and UI
capabilities can scale and adapt the exported UI to their local
platform UI look and feel (LAF). Specified in the Extensible Markup
Language (XML), the protocol defines generic user interface (UI)
remoting operations.
Requirements Language
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The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
"SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119 [1].
Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.1 General Concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.2 Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
1.3 The UI Remoting Framework . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
1.3.1 Discovery-Transport Layer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
1.3.2 UI Remoting Elements Layer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
1.3.3 Application Specific Layer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
1.4 Architecture Paradigm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
1.4.1 UI Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
1.4.2 Session Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
1.4.3 Remoting the User Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
2. Exchange Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
2.1 uiInitialisation Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
2.2 uiFragment Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
2.3 uiUpdate Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
2.4 uiEvent Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
3. Formal XML Syntax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
4. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
5. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
6. Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
7. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
7.1 Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
7.2 Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Author's Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
A. UI Server Consideration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
B. Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
B.1 Initialisation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
B.2 Client Updates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
B.3 Client Event . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
B.4 Server Update . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Intellectual Property and Copyright Statements . . . . . . . . 15
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1. Introduction
The protocol outlined in this document is based on the functional
requirements described in the Internet-Draft Requirements for
Scalable Remote Access to Applications . This document presents a
framework that enables applications to remote, in a scalable and
adaptable way, the user interface (UI) on remote devices using the
Lightweight Remote Display Protocol (LRDP). LRDP is a text based
protocol based on Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 as described
in [2], XML schema notation as described in [3] and [4], and XML
namespaces as described in [5].
1.1 General Concepts
A user interface (UI) may be composed of several widgets, wherein a
widget is understood as an element of a user interface that displays
information or provides a specific way for a user to interact with an
application. Widgets may for instance comprise icons, pull-down
menus, buttons, selection buttons, progress indicators, on-off
checkmarks, scrollbars, windows, window edges, toggle buttons, forms
and any other elements for displaying information, inviting,
accepting, and responding to user actions.
When accessing graphical user interface (GUI) applications remotely,
provisions need to be made for customizing the remoted UI to match
the characteristic display style (the so-called look & feel) of a
device platform. This is of particular importance for ensuring that
the user experience is not compromised from one device to another.
The IETF architecture can be implemented on multiple platforms with
its own UI framework for controlling the rendering of local
application(s) UI(s). Each platform has its specific appearance to
provide the appropriate user experience. This platform customisation
of the UI has to be replicated with the maximum fidelity on the new
platform where the UI is remoted. Therefore, the remoting GUI
protocol has to ensure a favorable user experience regardless of the
underlying viewing platform, so that the user can perceive the GUI as
a local application making it intuitively usable.
Based on the above criteria, LRDP defines a protocol framework that
supports the following features:
1. A means of describing a UI (or parts of a UI) in terms of widgets
and styles.
2. A means of communicating (partial) UI updates from a device that
hosts an application to a device that is responsible for
rendering the UI.
3. A means of describing events triggered through changes in widget
state made by the user so that they can be sent to the device
that hosts the application.
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Note that LRDP and the XML schema that formally describes LRDP do not
specify user interfaces for any particular application or set of
applications. This means that it can be applied to many different
domain contexts.
1.2 Definitions
For clarity, the following definitions are supplied:
o UI Servers - The devices that host applications and have the
capabilities to export the UI on other devices; they receive UI
input from remote users and transmit UI output.
o UI Clients - The devices that receive the UI output from a UI
server and provide UI input.
o UI Remoting Session - The session initiated between UI Servers and
UI clients for exchanging UI information to control applications
remotely.
o UI Remoting Protocol - The types of UI objects, UI events and
notifications that are interchanged between a UI client and UI
server in order to keep them in sync with each other during a
remote UI session.
o UI Remoting Framework - The architecture that defines how the
protocol should be supported on a UI client and server.
1.3 The UI Remoting Framework
The UI Remoting Framework includes the following components grouped
on three layers: Discovery-Transport, UI Remoting Elements and
Application Specific.
+---------------------------+
Application Specific | UI model |
+---------------------------+
UI Remoting Elements | LRDP |
+---------------+-----------+
Discovery-Transport | session setup | BEEP |
+---------------+-----------+
1.3.1 Discovery-Transport Layer
The Discovery-Transport layer includes the components that will
implement the remote UI client and server discovery, the remote UI
session set up, authentication and connection management, capability
negotiation and the transport of UI related information. The
Discovery-Transport layer include two components: "session setup" and
"transport".
o The "session setup" refers to the components that provide
discovery features (i.e. for finding remote UI server and clients)
and session set up (i.e. negotiating the platform capabilities for
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initiating the UI remoting).
o The "transport" refers to the transport protocol used to exchange
UI messages between the UI server and the UI client. The
"transport" will use the Blocks Extensible Exchange Protocol Core
(BEEP) [6].
1.3.2 UI Remoting Elements Layer
The UI Remoting Elements layer define the basic operations needed in
order to export the UI and to keep the UI synchronised with the
application state.
1.3.3 Application Specific Layer
The Application Specific layer defines widgets, widget properties and
styling properties that are specific to an application. This layer
includes the UI Model component, representing a tree of widgets that
make-up the user interface plus additional meta-info about the UI.
1.4 Architecture Paradigm
+----------------------+ +----------------------+
| UI Server | | UI Client |
| +------------------+ | | +------------------+ |
| | Application | | | | Host | |
| | +------------+ | | | | Windowing System | |
| | |Application | | | | +------------------+ |
| | | Logic | | | | +------------------+ |
| | +------------+ | | | | Viewer | |
| | +------------+ | | | | +------------+ | |
| | | UI Model | | | | | | UI Model | | |
| | +------------+ | | | | +------------+ | |
| +------------------+ | | +------------------+ |
| +---------+ +------+ | UI update | +------+ +---------+ |
| | Session | | LRDP |<------------->| LRDP | | Session | |
| | Setup | | |---------------| | | Setup | |
| +---------+ +------+ | UI events | +------+ +---------+ |
| | | |
+----------------------+ +----------------------+
1.4.1 UI Model
The UI Model represents a tree of widgets that make-up the user
interface plus additional meta-info about the UI. At the top level
of abstraction, the UI Model is seen as the Viewport in the MVC model
[7]; the model (application states) and the Controller (application
specific event handlers) are defined within the "Application Logic".
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1.4.2 Session Setup
The Session Setup role is to discover, find matches and initiate UI
sessions between UI Server and UI Client devices. We define a match
between a UI Server and a UI Client when the UI Server supports one
or more UI description languages that are supported by the UI Client
platform.
The Session Setup can use the existing IETF session model,
encompassing session descriptions using Session Description Protocol
(SDP) [8] or successors and the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)
[9], or UPnP Remote UI framework [10].
1.4.3 Remoting the User Interface
The UI Remoting Framework maintains two copies of the UI Model: the
mastercopy in the Application and a replica in the Viewer. The UI
Models are synchronised using the LRDP "UI update" and "UI events"
channels. The "UI update" channel is used to send the initial UI
Model and subsequent updates from the Application to the viewer, and
the "UI events" channel is used to sent back to the Application the
events triggered by the user interaction with the UI.
2. Exchange Description
This section describes the update and event exchanges of the
protocol. The descriptions contained within this section refer to
XML elements and attributes and their relation to the exchange of
data within the protocol. These descriptions also contain
specifications outside the scope of the formal XML syntax.
Therefore, this section will use the terms defined in RFC 2119 [1] to
describe the specifications outside the scope of the formal XML
syntax. While reading this section, please reference Section 3 for
details on the formal XML syntax.
2.1 uiInitialisation Format
The <uiInitialisation> element contains the full description of the
user interface in terms of widgets and styles. The first message
sent by an application having an UI that doesn't change its structure
at run-time MUST be the <uiInitialisation> message. During an UI
Remoting Session only one <uiInitialisation> message is sent.
All immediate child elements of the <uiFragment> element MUST be
namespace-qualified and MUST belong to the namespaces that were
negotiated during the Session Setup step.
Because UI description documents can be quite large, it is
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RECOMMENDED for the UI Client to provide some UI hints to the user
that the initialisation operation is a lengthy one, i.e. hourglass
mouse cursor.
2.2 uiFragment Format
The <uiFragment> element contains the description of parts of the
user interface in terms of widgets and styles. These kind of
messages are created by applications that are not aware of the whole
structure of the UI when the application is instantiated. As the
application becomes aware of the structure of the UI, it MUST send
the partial UI description to the Viewer as an <uiFragment> message.
All immediate child elements of the <uiFragment> element MUST be
namespace-qualified and MUST belong to the namespaces that were
negotiated during the Session Setup step.
2.3 uiUpdate Format
The <uiUpdate> element contains the change in the state of the UI
Model describing the new state of a widget element properties. An
<uiUpdate> message MUST follow an <uiInitialisation> or <uiFragment>
message.
All immediate child elements of the <uiUpdate> element MUST be
namespace-qualified and MUST belong to the namespaces that were
negotiated during the Session Setup step.
2.4 uiEvent Format
The <uiEvent> element contains information about an event that was
triggered due to the user interaction with the Viewer.
Currently, the <uiEvent> has one child element that contains the name
of the event.
3. Formal XML Syntax
LRDP is specified in XML Schema notation. The formal syntax
presented here is a complete schema representation of LRDP suitable
for automated validation of LRDP XML instances.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xs:schema xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
xmlns:lrdp="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:lrdp1"
targetNamespace="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:lrdp1"
elementFormDefault="qualified">
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<xs:annotation>
<xs:documentation>
Lightweight Remote Display Protocol (LRDP) Schema v1
</xs:documentation>
</xs:annotation>
<xs:element name="eventName" type="xs:string"/>
<xs:element name="uiInitialisation">
<xs:complexType>
<xs:sequence>
<xs:any namespace="##other"/>
</xs:sequence>
<xs:anyAttribute namespace="##other"/>
</xs:complexType>
</xs:element>
<xs:element name="uiFragment">
<xs:complexType>
<xs:sequence>
<xs:any namespace="##other"/>
</xs:sequence>
<xs:anyAttribute namespace="##other"/>
</xs:complexType>
</xs:element>
<xs:element name="uiUpdate">
<xs:complexType>
<xs:sequence>
<xs:any namespace="##other"/>
</xs:sequence>
<xs:anyAttribute namespace="##other"/>
</xs:complexType>
</xs:element>
<xs:element name="uiEvent">
<xs:complexType>
<xs:sequence>
<xs:element ref="lrdp:eventName"/>
</xs:sequence>
</xs:complexType>
</xs:element>
</xs:schema>
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4. IANA Considerations
This document uses a proposed XML namespace and schema. Accordingly,
the following registration information is provided for the IANA:
o URN/URI:
* urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:lrdp1
o Contact:
* Vlad Stirbu <vlad.stirbu@nokia.com>
o XML:
* The XML Schema specified in Section 3.
5. Security Considerations
Input and output data may be highly sensitive. For example, input
data may contain a user's personal data, such as passwords. At the
same time, the user needs to be sure that the UI he wants to interact
with was not tampered with. Other applications may not require
confidentiality in their UI output.
The LRDP XML layer provides no authentication or privacy facilities
of its own. It relies on the transport layer for all of these
abilities.
6. Acknowledgements
7. References
7.1 Normative References
[1] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement
Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.
[2] World Wide Web Consortium, "Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0
(Third Edition)", W3C Recommendation XML, February 2004,
<http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xml-20040204>.
[3] World Wide Web Consortium, "XML Schema Part 1: Structures Second
Edition", W3C Recommendation XML Schema, October 2004, <
http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xmlschema-1-20041028/ >.
[4] World Wide Web Consortium, "XML Schema Part 2: Datatypes Second
Edition", W3C Recommendation XML Schema, October 2004,
<http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xmlschema-2-20041028/>.
[5] World Wide Web Consortium, "Namespaces in XML", W3C
Recommendation XML Namespaces, January 1999,
<http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-xml-names-19990114>.
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[6] Rose, M., "The Blocks Extensible Exchange Protocol Core",
RFC 3080, March 2001.
7.2 Informative References
[7] Buschmann, F., Meunier, R., Rohnert, H., Sommerlad, P., and M.
Stal, "Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture, Volume 1: A
System of Patterns", John Wiley & Sons , August 1996.
[8] Handley, M. and V. Jacobson, "SDP: Session Description
Protocol", RFC 2327, April 1998,
<http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2327.txt>.
[9] Rosenberg, J., Schulzrinne, H., Camarillo, G., Johnston, A.,
Peterson, J., Sparks, R., Handley, M., and E. Schooler, "SIP:
Session Initiation Protocol", RFC 3261, June 2002,
<http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3261.txt>.
[10] UPnP Forum, "Remote UI Client and Server V 1.0", August 2004,
<http://www.upnp.org/standardizeddcps/remoteui.asp>.
[11] Abrams, M. and J. Helms, "User Interface Markup Language (UIML)
Specification", Working Draft wd-UIML-UIMLspecification-3.1,
OASIS , March 2004.
[12] Urpalainen, J., "An Extensible Markup Language (XML) Patch
Operations Framework Utilizing XPath Selectors",
draft-urpalainen-simple-xml-patch-ops-00 (work in progress),
March 2005.
Author's Address
Vlad Stirbu
Nokia
Visiokatu 3
Tampere 33720
Finland
Phone: +358 7180 60572
Email: vlad.stirbu@nokia.com
Appendix A. UI Server Consideration
If an Application supports multiple UI Client platforms then the UI
Model has two components: Generic UI Model and UI Model.
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+-------------------------------+
| UI Server |
| |
| +---------------------------+ |
| | Application | |
| | +-----------------------+ | |
| | | Application Logic | | |
| | +-----------------------+ | |
| | +----------+ +----------+ | |
| | | Generic | | UI Model | | |
| | | UI Model | | | | |
| | +----------+ +----------+ | |
| +---------------------------+ |
| +---------+ +------+ |
| | Session | | LRDP | |
| | Setup | | | |
| +---------+ +------+ |
| |
+-------------------------------+
The Generic UI Model is described using an abstract meta-language,
User Interface Markup Language (UIML) [11], that has two important
characteristics:
o Provides the canonical format for describing user interfaces that
map to multiple devices.
o Generate one description of the user interface connection to
application logic independent of target device.
The UI Model is described using the platform specific UI description
language. The UI Model is obtained by converting the Generic UI
Model using an UIML vocabulary specific to the UI Client platform.
At present, the list of standard UIML vocabularies is posted on UIML
website: <http://uiml.org/toolkits>.
Appendix B. Examples
In this examples, the user interfaces are described using an
imaginary "UI Description Example" XML Schema.
B.1 Initialisation
The UI Server MUST send an <uiInitialisation> message to the UI
Client after the Session Setup has completed and the LRDP session is
established. The <uiInitialisation> message contains the full
description of the UI.
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<uiInitialisation xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:lrdp1"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:lrdp1 lrdp.xsd">
<uide:window xmlns:uid="ui:description:uide1"
xsi:schemaLocation="ui:description:example:uide1 uide.xsd"
title="Hello World!">
<uide:label value="Change window title:" control="title-text"/>
<uide:textbox id="title-text" value="New Title"/>
<uide:button id="update-button" label="Update">
<uide:action event="UpdatePressed"/>
</uide:button>
<uide:button id="cancel-button" label="Cancel">
<uide:action event="CancelPressed"/>
</uide:button>
</uide:window>
</uiInitialisation>
When the UI Client receives the <uiInitialisation> message, it starts
building the widget tree. During the rendering process the widgets
are replaced with the equivalent platform representation of them and
the UI may look like this:
+-------------------------------------------------------------+
| Hello World! |
+-------------------------------------------------------------+
| |
| +------------------+ +----------++----------+ |
| Change title: | New Title | | Update || Cancel | |
| +------------------+ +----------++----------+ |
| |
+-------------------------------------------------------------+
B.2 Client Updates
Consider that the user is staring to type the new name for the window
inside the textbox area.
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+-------------------------------------------------------------+
| Hello World! |
+-------------------------------------------------------------+
| |
| +------------------+ +----------++----------+ |
| Change title: | Updated Title_ | | Update || Cancel | |
| +------------------+ +----------++----------+ |
| |
+-------------------------------------------------------------+
When the user has finished typing and textbox has lost the focus, the
UI Client MUST inform the UI Server that the content of the "value"
attribute has changed. The UI Client is doing so by sending an
<uiUpdate> message to the UI Server indicating only the change. The
content of the <uiUpdate> MAY be formated as an XML patch [12].
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<uiUpdate xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:lrdp1"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:lrdp1 lrdp.xsd"
xmlns:uid="ui:description:example:uide1">
<uide:replace sel="*/elem[@id='title-text']" type="@value">
Update Title
</uide:replace>
</uiUpdate>
B.3 Client Event
When the user is pressing the "Update" button, the Host Windowing
System captures the event and passes it to the Viewer which notifies
the UI Server with an <uiEvent> message that the "UpdatePressed"
event occurred on the rendering side.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<uiEvent xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:lrdp1"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:lrdp1 lrdp.xsd">
<eventName>UpdatePressed</eventName>
</uiEvent>
The UI Server receives an event form the UI Client it passes it to
the Application Logic for processing. The Application Logic takes
the appropriate measures for treating the event and updates the UI
Model with the new value for the window title.
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B.4 Server Update
When the UI Model is updated the UI Server informs the UI client
about the change by sending an <uiUpdate> message. The content of
the <uiUpdate> MAY be formated as an XML patch [12].
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<uiUpdate xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:lrdp1"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:lrdp1 lrdp.xsd"
xmlns:uid="ui:description:example:uide1">
<uide:replace sel="window" type="@title">
Update Title
</uide:replace>
</uiUpdate>
The UI Client receives the message and updates the UI Model and
renders the new UI with the new window title:
+-------------------------------------------------------------+
| Updated Title |
+-------------------------------------------------------------+
| |
| +------------------+ +----------++----------+ |
| Change title: | Updated Title | | Update || Cancel | |
| +------------------+ +----------++----------+ |
| |
+-------------------------------------------------------------+
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