WISBuilder: A Framework for Facilitating Development of Web-Based Information Systems

This paper presents WISBuilder, a framework that investigates an approach for facilitating the development of Web-based Information Systems. The approach is based on the Model-View-Controller and Generative Programming paradigms. Firstly, the WISBuilder framework applies the following separation of tasks: structure, business-logic and visual style. The system specification is performed with two high-level XML-based languages: WSML and WAML. Secondly, WISBuilder proposes the creation of reusable code templates for each high-level language. Thirdly, WISBuilder uses predefined code templates for expanding the system specification in high-level annotations. The goals of this framework are twofold: to speed-up development by writing less code and development in parallel; and to promote software reusability by reusing generic code templates. Experimental results with three small-scale Webbased information systems show an important reduction of programming effort, using the proposed frame...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: CONIELECOMP
• Authors: Angel Israel Ortiz-Cornejo, Heriberto Cuayáhuitl, Carlos Perez-Corona
• Keywords: Code Templates, Communications, CONIELECOMP 2006, Generative Programming Paradigms, Reusable Code Templates