HI!MVC: Hierarchical MVC Framework for WEB Applications

This paper presents Hi!MVC, a framework for developing high interactive web applications with a MVC Architecture. Nowadays, to manage, extend and correct web applications can be difficult due to the navigational paradigm they are based on. Hi!MVC framework helps to make these tasks easier. This framework allows building a web based interface, generating each page from the objects that represent its state. Every class to be showed in the interface is associated with two entities: its html representation (view) and its interactions in the view manager (controller). The whole html page is generated by composition of views according to the composition relationship of objects. Interactions between user and application are managed by the controller associated to the view which shows interaction elements (links or forms). Hi!MVC allows building web interface in a hierarchical and distributed way. There are other frameworks and APIs offering MVC architectures to web applications, but we think that they are not applying exactly the same concepts. While they keep on basing their architectures on the navigational paradigm we are offering a new point of view based on an innovator hierarchical model. First, we present the main ideas of our proposal. Next, we expose how to implement it using different Java technologies. Finally, we make a first approach to our hierarchical MVC model. We also compare shortly our proposal with the previously cited technologies.

Reverse engineering of web applications

The MAP-i Doctoral Program of the Universities of Minho, Aveiro and Porto

Engineering of Business Critical Web Applications

Research focus of this thesis is to explore options for building systems for business critical web applications. Business criticality here includes requirements for data protection and system availability. The focus is on open source software. Goals are to identify robust technologies and engineering practices to implement such systems. Research methods include experiments made with sample systems built around chosen software packages that represent certain technologies. The main research focused on finding a good method for database data replication, a key functionality for high-availability, database-driven web applications. Research included also finding engineering best practices from books written by administrators of high traffic web applications. Experiment with database replication showed, that block level synchronous replication offered by DRBD replication software offered considerably more robust data protection and high-availability functionality compared to leading open source database product MySQL, and its built-in asynchronous replication. For master-master database setups, block level replication is more recommended way to build high-availability into the system. Based on thesis research, building high-availability web applications is possible using a combination of open source software and engineering best practices for data protection, availability planning and scaling.

Empirical study on the maintainability of Web applications: Model-driven Engineering vs Code-centric

Model-driven Engineering (MDE) approaches are often acknowledged to improve the maintainability of the resulting applications. However, there is a scarcity of empirical evidence that backs their claimed benefits and limitations with respect to code-centric approaches. The purpose of this paper is to compare the performance and satisfaction of junior software maintainers while executing maintainability tasks on Web applications with two different development approaches, one being OOH4RIA, a model-driven approach, and the other being a code-centric approach based on Visual Studio .NET and the Agile Unified Process. We have conducted a quasi-experiment with 27 graduated students from the University of Alicante. They were randomly divided into two groups, and each group was assigned to a different Web application on which they performed a set of maintainability tasks. The results show that maintaining Web applications with OOH4RIA clearly improves the performance of subjects. It also tips the satisfaction balance in favor of OOH4RIA, although not significantly. Model-driven development methods seem to improve both the developers’ objective performance and subjective opinions on ease of use of the method. This notwithstanding, further experimentation is needed to be able to generalize the results to different populations, methods, languages and tools, different domains and different application sizes.

Semantic Web applications: a framework for industry and business exploitation – What is needed for the adoption of the Semantic Web from the market and industry

In recent years, Semantic Web (SW) research has resulted in significant outcomes. Various industries have adopted SW technologies, while the ‘deep web’ is still pursuing the critical transformation point, in which the majority of data found on the deep web will be exploited through SW value layers. In this article we analyse the SW applications from a ‘market’ perspective. We are setting the key requirements for real-world information systems that are SW-enabled and we discuss the major difficulties for the SW uptake that has been delayed. This article contributes to the literature of SW and knowledge management providing a context for discourse towards best practices on SW-based information systems.

Modelling adaptive web applications

Conceptual Modelling approaches for the web need extensions to specify dynamic personalization properties in order to design more powerful web applications. Current approaches provide techniques to support dynamic personalization, usually focused on implementation details. This article presents an extension of the OO-H conceptual modeling approach to address the particulars associated with the design and specification of dynamic personalization. The main benefit is that this specification can be modified without recompile the rest of the application modules. We describe how conventional navigation and presentation diagrams are influenced by personalization properties. In order to model the variable part of the interface logic OO-H has a personalization architecture that leans on a rule engine. Rules are defined based on a User Model and a Reference Model.

Censorship Resistant Web Applications

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2016-06

Story Driven Web Applications

Kern der vorliegenden Arbeit ist die Modellierung komplexer Webapplikationen mit dem Story-Driven-Modeling Ansatz.Ziel ist es hierbei,die komplette Applikation allein durch die Spezifikation von Modellen zu entwickeln. Das händische Erstellen von Quelltext ist nicht notwendig. Die vorliegende Arbeit zeigt sowohl den Forschungsweg, der die angestrebte Modellierung von Webapplikationen ermöglicht, als auch die resultierenden Ergebnisse auf. Zur Unterstützung des Entwicklungsprozesses wird weiterhin ein modellgetriebener Softwareentwicklungsprozess vorgestellt, der die Modellierung einer Webapplikation von der Aufnahme der Anforderungen, bis zur abschließenden Erzeugung des Quelltextes durch Codegenerierung aus den spezifizierten Modellen, abdeckt. Für den definierten Prozess wird ferner Werkzeugunterstützung innerhalb der Fujaba Toolsuite bereitgestellt. Im Rahmen der vorliegenden Arbeit wurde die bestehede Toolsuite hierzu um alle zur Prozessunterstützung notwendigen Werkzeuge erweitert. Darüber hinaus wurden im Rahmen der vorliegenden Arbeit die in Fujaba bestehenden Werkzeuge erweitert, um neben den klassischen Möglichkeiten zur Modellierung komplexer Java-Applikationen auch die Erzeugung von Webapplikationen zu ermöglichen. Neben der genauen Beschreibung des Entwicklungsprozesses werden im Rahmen dieser Arbeit die entstehenden Webapplikationen mit ihren spezifischen Eigenschaften genau beschrieben. Zur Erzeugung dieser Applikationen wird neben dem Entwicklungsprozess die Diagrammart der Workflowdiagramme eingeführt und beschrieben. Diese Diagramme dienen der Abbildung des intendierten Userworkflows der Applikation im Rahmen der Anforderungsanalyse und stellen im weiteren Entwicklungsverlauf ein dediziertes Entwicklungsartefakt dar. Basierend auf den Workflowdiagrammen werden sowohl die grafische Benutzerschnittstelle der Webapplikation beschrieben, als auch ein Laufzeitsystem initialisiert, welches basierend auf den im Workflowdiagramm abgebildeten Abläufen die Anwendung steuert. Dieses Laufzeitsystem wurde im Rahmen der vorliegenden Arbeit entwickelt und in der Prozessunterstützung verankert. Alle notwendigen Änderungen und Anpassungen und Erweiterungen an bereits bestehenden Teilen der Fujaba Toolsuite werden unter dem Aspekt der Erstellung clientseitiger Datenmodelle einer Webapplikation genau beschrieben und in Verbindung mit den zu erfüllenden Voraussetzungen erläutert. In diesem Zusammenhang wird ebenfalls beschrieben, wie Graphtransformationen zur Umsetzung von Businesslogik auf der Clientseite einer Webapplikation eingesetzt werden können und auf welche Weise Datenmodelländerungen zwischen unterschiedlichen Clients synchronisiert werden können. Insgesamt zeigt die vorliegende Arbeit einen Weg auf, den bestehenden Ansatz des StoryDriven-Modeling für die Erzeugung von Webapplikationen einzusetzen. Durch die im Rahmen dieser Arbeit beschriebene Herangehensweise werden hierbei gleichzeitig Webbrowser zu einer neuen Klasse von Graphersetzungs-Engines erweitert, indem Graphtransformationen innerhalb der Ajax-Engine des Browsers ausgeliefert und ausgeführt werden.

Collaborative web applications

Trabalho apresentado no âmbito do Mestrado em Engenharia Informática, como requisito parcial para obtenção do grau de Mestre em Engenharia Informática

Core language for web applications

Trabalho apresentado no âmbito do Mestrado em Engenharia Informática, como requisito parcial para obtenção do grau de Mestre em Engenharia Informática

Profiling of real-world web applications

Dissertação para obtenção do Grau de Mestre em Engenharia Informática

SAP Web Applications

Debido a la importancia y el incremento del uso de internet y de la expansión de los programas de la compañia alemana SAP, decidimos hacer el TFC de manera que pudieramos combinar ambos campos. Hemos creado un paquete de software par el control, almacenamiento y estudio del tiempo invertido por los trabajadores de una empresa en los proyectos que esta desarrolla. Hemos utilizado SAP con acceso web.

SAP web applications

This project report has been writen by four international students studying at the university of Vitus Bering Denmark. Its purpose is to provide a closer view on the establishment of a new company, producing software applications, in particular SAP applications. We started our work from a problem, that was finding a new way to manage projects and for this reason our focus has been on a particular kind of program, enabling the companies and the workers to control their projects and the hours spent by each employee on each project.