UML Extension for ASAM-GDI Device Capability Description

Nowadays, the Unified Modeling Language (UML) is the most successful notation for the design of object-oriented applications. However, plain UML is not enough to characterize the web presentation tier of enterprise applications, including the navigational, structural and role-based access control (RBAC) features present in these applications. In this paper, we present Enterprise Web Application Extension (E-WAE), a lightweight UML extension for the modeling of these elements, which permits the inclusion of multitier, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and security design-level patterns in the models. Our approach follows a Model-Driven Development (MDD) approach, which enables the automatic generation of intermediate platform-specific models and automatic code generation for JavaServer Faces (JSF) and Active Server Pages.NET Model-View-Controller (ASP.NET MVC) frameworks. In addition, this generated code can be used as a low-cost mockup for early client validation of the navigational, structural and RBAC features of enterprise applications. E-WAE has been used with different applications. In this paper, we refer to the checkout process in the Amazon website, the delete resources use case in OdAJ2EE, an educational application developed by us, and the US Library of Congress Online Catalog search facility as examples of its applicability.

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UMM Add-In: A UML Extension for UN/CEFACT’s Modeling Methodology

Service-Oriented Computing – ICSOC 2007 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science ◽

10.1007/978-3-540-74974-5_57 ◽

2007 ◽

pp. 618-619 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

B. Hofreiter ◽

C. Huemer ◽

P. Liegl ◽

R. Schuster ◽

M. Zapletal

Keyword(s):

Modeling Methodology ◽

Uml Extension

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Modeling Variant User Interfaces for Web-Based Software Product Lines

Integrated Approaches in Information Technology and Web Engineering ◽

10.4018/978-1-60566-418-7.ch015 ◽

2009 ◽

pp. 212-242

Author(s):

Suet Chun Lee

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

User Interface ◽

User Interfaces ◽

Unified Modeling Language ◽

Software Product Line ◽

Product Line ◽

Modeling Language ◽

Web Based ◽

Software Product ◽

Uml Extension

Software product line (SPL) is a software engineering paradigm for software development. A software product within a product line often has specific functionalities that are not common to all other products within the product line. Those specific functionalities are termed “variant features” in a product line. SPL paradigm involves the modeling of variant features. However, little work in SPL investigates and addresses the modeling of variant features specific to user interface (UI). Unified Modeling Language (UML) is the de facto modeling language for object-oriented software systems. It is known that UML needs better support in modeling UIs. Thus, much research developed UML extensions to improve UML support in modeling UIs. Yet little of this work is related to developing such extensions for modeling UIs for SPLs in which variant features specific to UI modeling must be addressed. This research develops a UML extension -Web User Interface Modeling Language (WUIML) to address these problems. WUIML defines elements for modeling variant features specific to user interfaces for Web-based SPLs. The model elements in WUIML extend from the metaclass and BasicActivity of the UML2.0 metamodel. WUIML integrates the modeling of variant features specific to user interfaces to UML. For example, in a Web-based patient registration software product line, member products targeting British users may use British date format in the user interface, while member products targeting United States users may use United States date format in the user interface. Thus, this is a variant feature for this product line. WUIML defines a model element, XOR, to represent such exclusive or conditions in a product line user interface model. WUIML would reduce SPL engineers’ efforts needed in UI development. To validate the WUIML research outcome, a case study was conducted. The results of this empirical study indicate that modeling UIs for Web-based SPLs using WUIML is more effective and efficient than using standard UML.

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