After the rather abstract and high level description of what our server code should look like, we are ready to step down and get our hands dirty with some real code. But, not immediately! First, we introduce our web application and describe a set of requirements for it.
At the time of writing this chapter, one of the authors (Ghica) was in China, accompanying her husband on a university exchange. To keep family and friends informed of their whereabouts and adventures, they registered for a Dutch travel blog site.
The site serves its purpose, but the user interface is annoying, to say the least. This gave us the idea that maybe this user interface could be improved and that it actually would provide an example where we could show many of the features of the Backbase framework, as you will see.
Why C3D? Well, this book is about JavaScript circles and how to square them into Backbase widgets. On the other hand, traveling is about the globe, which is really a 3D circle...