Towards the Integration of Data and Functionality in Web Applications. A Model Driven Approach
Victoria Torres, Ricardo Quintero, Marta Ruiz, Vicente Pelechano · 2005
Abstract. Web Engineering methods have evolved during the last years to deal with new requirements that have arisen as a natural evolution of Web Applications. However, a new challenge that has been little handled by some of these methods is the data and functionality integration with third-party systems. Relying on the basic principles of the OMG Model Driven Architecture, we present a solution to achieve this integration at the conceptual modelling level. Therefore, solving the integration problem at this level of abstraction let us (1) give a general solution that is not tied to any particular implementation technology and (2) to handle external components at the conceptual modelling phase. To achieve this goal we present a new model that characterizes external functionality at a high level of abstraction. 1