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Using UML Profiles for Documenting Web-Based Application Frameworks (2002)
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| Venue: | Annals of Software Engineering |
| Citations: | 8 - 1 self |
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@ARTICLE{Fuentes02usinguml,
author = {Lidia Fuentes and José M. Troya and Antonio Vallecillo and Antonio Vallecillo [lff and Av]@lcc. Uma. Es},
title = {Using UML Profiles for Documenting Web-Based Application Frameworks},
journal = {Annals of Software Engineering},
year = {2002},
volume = {13},
pages = {249--264}
}
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Abstract
The Web now offers an exceptional infrastructure for the development of distributed collaborative services and applications. However, most of the existing applications only make use of the Web access and visualization facilities, without exploiting its distributed-processing potential capabilities. Web technologies are currently more focused on the provision of semantics to data and the design of dynamic Web pages, while paying little attention to the distributed architecture of the applications -- that should go beyond client-server architectures. Application frameworks are one of the key technologies that may provide the mechanisms required for the design and development of reusable and scalable systems in these environments. However, the way to document such frameworks so they can be effectively tailored and reused still remains unresolved. In this paper we propose the use of UML profiles for documenting Webbased application frameworks, as a standard means for expressing their semantics. UML profiles allow all stakeholders of a system to share a common graphical notation and vocabulary, and permit more precise specifications and better documentation on how to use and customize applications. As an example, we build a UML profile for MultiTEL, a framework particularly well suited for the development of Internet-based multimedia and collaborative systems, and show how systems designers can use it to derive and document their applications.
Keyphrases
uml profile web-based application framework system designer key technology scalable system web access application framework client-server architecture precise specification internet-based multimedia exceptional infrastructure common graphical notation little attention dynamic web page collaborative service distributed architecture collaborative system webbased application framework distributed-processing potential capability visualization facility web technology
