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Web Modelling Language (WebML) [1-2] was defined, about 8 years ago, as a conceptual model for data-intensive Web applications. Early deployment technologies were very unstable and immature; as a reaction, WebML was thought as a high level, implementation-independent conceptual model, and the associated design support environment, called WebRatio [7], has always been platform-independent, so as to adapt to frequent technological changes. WebML is based upon orthogonal separation of concerns: content, interface logics, and presentation logics are defined as separate components. The main innovation in WebML comes from the interface logics, that enables the computation of Web pages made up of logical components (units) interconnected by logical links (i.e., not only the units but also the links have a formal semantics); the computation is associated with powerful defaults so as to associate to simple diagrams all the required semantics for a full deployment, through code generators.
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Ceri, S. (2007). Design Abstractions for Innovative Web Applications. In: Cooper, R., Kennedy, J. (eds) Data Management. Data, Data Everywhere. BNCOD 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4587. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73390-4_1
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