Abstract
Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) have introduced powerful novel functionalities into the Web architecture, borrowed from client-server and desktop applications. The resulting platforms allow designers to improve the user's experience, by exploiting client-side data and computation, bidirectional client-server communication, synchronous and asynchronous events, and rich interface widgets. However, the rapid evolution of RIA technologies challenges the Model-Driven Development methodologies that have been successfully applied in the past decade to traditional Web solutions. This paper illustrates an evolutionary approach for incorporating a wealth of RIA features into an existing Web engineering methodology and notation. The experience demonstrates that it is possible to model RIA application requirements at a high-level using a platform-independent notation, and generate the client-side and server-side code automatically. The resulting approach is evaluated in terms of expressive power, ease of use, and implementability.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 7 |
Pages (from-to) | 1-47 |
Number of pages | 47 |
Journal | ACM Transactions on the Web |
Volume | 4 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1 Apr 2010 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Information interfaces and presentation
- Information storage and retrieval
- Model-driven development
- Rich Internet applications
- Web engineering