Requirements capture and specification for enterprise applications: a UML based attempt

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Choppy
Keyword(s):  
Enterprise Applications

Enterprise WAE: A Lightweight UML Extension for the Characterization of the Presentation Tier of Enterprise Applications with MDD-Based Mockup Generation

2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (08) ◽  
pp. 1291-1331
Author(s):  
Humberto Cortés ◽  
Antonio Navarro
Keyword(s):  
Code Generation ◽  
Web Application ◽  
Service Oriented Architecture ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Unified Modeling Language ◽  
Automatic Generation ◽  
Role Based Access Control ◽  
Enterprise Applications ◽  
Uml Extension ◽  
Automatic Code

Nowadays, the Unified Modeling Language (UML) is the most successful notation for the design of object-oriented applications. However, plain UML is not enough to characterize the web presentation tier of enterprise applications, including the navigational, structural and role-based access control (RBAC) features present in these applications. In this paper, we present Enterprise Web Application Extension (E-WAE), a lightweight UML extension for the modeling of these elements, which permits the inclusion of multitier, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and security design-level patterns in the models. Our approach follows a Model-Driven Development (MDD) approach, which enables the automatic generation of intermediate platform-specific models and automatic code generation for JavaServer Faces (JSF) and Active Server Pages.NET Model-View-Controller (ASP.NET MVC) frameworks. In addition, this generated code can be used as a low-cost mockup for early client validation of the navigational, structural and RBAC features of enterprise applications. E-WAE has been used with different applications. In this paper, we refer to the checkout process in the Amazon website, the delete resources use case in OdAJ2EE, an educational application developed by us, and the US Library of Congress Online Catalog search facility as examples of its applicability.

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