TURNING CONCEPTS INTO REALITY - Bridging Requirement Engineering and Model-Driven Generation of Web Applications

Many Web applications have among their features the possibility of distributing their data and their business logic between the client and the server, also allowing an asynchronous communication between them. These features, originally associated with the arrival of Rich Internet Applications (RIA), remain particularly relevant and desirable. In the area of RIA, there are few proposals that simultaneously consider these features, adopt Model-Driven Development (MDD), and use implementation technologies based on scripting. In this work, we start from MoWebA, an MDD approach to web application development, and we extend it by defining a specific architecture model with RIA functionalities, supporting the previously mentioned features. We have defined the necessary metamodels and UML profiles, as well as transformation rules that allow you to generate code based on HTML5, Javascript, jQuery, jQuery Datatables and jQuery UI. The preliminary validation of the proposal shows positive evidences regarding the effectiveness, efficiency and satisfaction of the users with respect to the modeling and code generation processes of the proposal.

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Applying Transformations to Model Driven Development of Web Applications

Perspectives in Conceptual Modeling - Lecture Notes in Computer Science ◽

10.1007/11568346_8 ◽

2005 ◽

pp. 63-73 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Santiago Meliá ◽

Jaime Gómez

Keyword(s):

Web Applications ◽

Model Driven Development ◽

Model Driven

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An MDA Approach and QVT Transformations for the Integrated Development of Goal-Oriented Data Warehouses and Data Marts

Innovations in Database Design, Web Applications, and Information Systems Management ◽

10.4018/978-1-4666-2044-5.ch003 ◽

2013 ◽

pp. 44-71

Author(s):

Jesús Pardillo ◽

Jose-Norberto Mazón ◽

Juan Trujillo

Keyword(s):

Data Warehousing ◽

Complete Solution ◽

Requirement Engineering ◽

User Requirements ◽

Data Warehouses ◽

Integrated Development ◽

Model Driven ◽

Organizational Challenges ◽

Uml Profiles ◽

Data Marts

To customize a data warehouse, many organizations develop concrete data marts focused on a particular department or business process. However, the integrated development of these data marts is an open problem for many organizations due to the technical and organizational challenges involved during the design of these repositories as a complete solution. In this article, the authors present a design approach that employs user requirements to build both corporate data warehouses and data marts in an integrated manner. The approach links information requirements to specific data marts elicited by using goal-oriented requirement engineering, which are automatically translated into the implementation of corresponding data repositories by means of model-driven engineering techniques. The authors provide two UML profiles that integrate the design of both data warehouses and data marts and a set of QVT transformations with which to automate this process. The advantage of this approach is that user requirements are captured from the early development stages of a data-warehousing project to automatically translate them into the entire data-warehousing platform, considering the different data marts. Finally, the authors provide screenshots of the CASE tools that support the approach, and a case study to show its benefits.

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Context-Aware Applications for the Web

Web Technologies ◽

10.4018/978-1-60566-982-3.ch025 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 417-440

Author(s):

Florian Daniel

Keyword(s):

Context Awareness ◽

Web Applications ◽

User Profile ◽

Expressive Power ◽

Context Aware ◽

Web Engineering ◽

Runtime Adaptation ◽

Model Driven ◽

Context Data ◽

Development Approach

Adaptivity (the runtime adaptation to user profile data) and context-awareness (the runtime adaptation to generic context data) have been gaining momentum in the field of Web engineering over the last years, especially in response to the ever growing demand for highly personalized services and applications coming from end users. Developing context-aware and adaptive Web applications requires addressing a few design concerns that are proper of such kind of applications and independent of the chosen modeling paradigm or programming language. In this chapter we characterize the design of context-aware Web applications, the authors describe a conceptual, model-driven development approach, and they show how the peculiarities of context-awareness require augmenting the expressive power of conceptual models in order to be able to express adaptive application behaviors.

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Tool Support for Model-driven Development of Web Applications

International Journal of Information Technology and Web Engineering ◽

10.4018/jitwe.2007070105 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 2 (3) ◽

pp. 65-78 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Jaime Gomez ◽

Alejandro Bia ◽

Antonio Parraga

Keyword(s):

Web Applications ◽

Tool Support ◽

Model Driven Development ◽

Model Driven

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Context-Aware Applications for the Web

Context-Aware Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing for Enhanced Usability ◽

10.4018/978-1-60566-290-9.ch003 ◽

2010 ◽

pp. 59-82 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Florian Daniel

Keyword(s):

Context Awareness ◽

Web Applications ◽

User Profile ◽

Context Aware ◽

Web Engineering ◽

Runtime Adaptation ◽

Model Driven ◽

Personalized Services ◽

Context Data ◽

Development Approach

Adaptivity (the runtime adaptation to user profile data) and context-awareness (the runtime adaptation to generic context data) have been gaining momentum in the field of Web engineering over the last years, especially in response to the ever growing demand for highly personalized services and applications coming from end users. Developing context-aware and adaptive Web applications requires addressing a few design concerns that are proper of such kind of applications and independent of the chosen modeling paradigm or programming language. In this chapter we characterize the design of context-aware Web applications, the authors describe a conceptual, model-driven development approach, and they show how the peculiarities of context-awareness require augmenting the expressivepower of conceptual models in order to be able to express adaptive application behaviors.

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