An architecture for the rapid development of XML-based web applications

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2009

Authors

Leal, JP (Author) FCUP; Gonalves, JB (Author) Other

Conference proceedings International

Title: ICEIS 2009 - 11th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, Proceedings

Pages: 274-277

ICEIS 2009 - 11th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems

Milan, 6 May 2009 through 10 May 2009

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Authenticus ID: P-007-S58

Abstract (EN): Our research goal is the generation of working web applications from high level specifications. Based on our experience in using XML transformations for that purpose, we applied this approach to the rapid development of database management applications. The result is an architecture that defines of a web application as a set of XML transformations, and generates these transformations using second order transformations from a database schema. We used the Model-View-Controller architectural pattern to assign different roles to transformations, and defined a pipeline of transformations to process an HTTP request. The definition of these transformations is based on a correspondence between data-oriented XML Schema definitions and the Entity-Relationship model. Using this correspondence we were able produce transformations that implement database operations, forms interfaces generators and application controllers, as well as the second order transformations that produce all of them. This paper includes also a description of a RAD system following this architecture that allowed us to perform a critical evaluation of this proposal.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 4