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Facing the Technological Challenges of Web 2.0: A RIA Model-Driven Engineering Approach

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Web Information Systems Engineering - WISE 2009 (WISE 2009)

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One of the main reasons for the success of Web 2.0 is the improvement in user experience. This improvement is a consequence of the evolution from HTML User Interfaces (UI) to more usable and richer UI. The most popular Web 2.0 applications have selected the Rich Internet Application (RIA) paradigm to achieve this goal. However, the current Web Engineering methods do not provide the expressivity required to produce RIA interfaces. This work presents a RIA Metamodel to deal with the new technological challenges that have arisen with Web 2.0 development. This metamodel supports two main perspectives: 1) the definition of the UI as a combination of widgets from a selected RIA technology; and 2) the specification of the UI interaction as a consequence of the events produced by the user. In order to illustrate how this RIA Metamodel can be used in a Model-driven Engineering (MDE) method, this work also presents the integration of the RIA Metamodel with the OOWS method.

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  1. Centro de Investigación en Métodos de Producción de Software, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain

    Francisco Valverde & Oscar Pastor

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  1. European Research Center for Information Systems, University of Münster,, Leonardo Campus 3, 48149, Münster, Germany

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  2. Dept. of Computer Science, School of Engineering, University of California, 95064, Santa Cruz, CA, USA

    Darrell D. E. Long

  3. Dept. of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, William M. W. Mong Engineering Building, Shatin, N. T.,, Hong Kong, China

    Jeffrey Xu Yu

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Valverde, F., Pastor, O. (2009). Facing the Technological Challenges of Web 2.0: A RIA Model-Driven Engineering Approach. In: Vossen, G., Long, D.D.E., Yu, J.X. (eds) Web Information Systems Engineering - WISE 2009. WISE 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5802. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04409-0_18

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