Categories of Web Applications

Below fig identifies different categories of Web applications depending on their development history and their degree of complexity and gives examples (cf. Murugesan 2000). and(Gerti Kappel)

1. Document Centric (Static homepage,web radio,company web site)
2. Interactive ( Virtual exhibition, news site, travel planning )
3. Transactional ( online banking, shopping, booking system )
4. Workflow based ( E government, B2B solution )
5. Collaborative ( chat room, E learning plateform, P2P-services )
6. Portal oriented ( community portal, online shopping mall, business portal )
7. Ubiquitous (customized services, location aware services, Multi plateform delivery )
8. Semantic ( Knowledge management,syndication, recomender system )
9. Social (web logs, collaborative filtering, Virtual shared workplace )