Building CMS-based Web applications using a model-driven approach

Trias, Feliu

doi:10.1109/rcis.2012.6240465

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“…[16], [17], and [15] deal with Figure 4: eJSL Editor within the IntelliJ IDEA platform-independent meta models for the WCMS domain, whereas [15] also generates concrete WCMS-based web applications. However, all of these works overlook their models' extensibility, which necessitates further abstraction.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

JooMDD

Priefer

Kneisel

Taentzer

2016

Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Software Engineering Companion

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Developing software extensions for Web Content Management Systems (WCMSs) like Joomla, WordPress, or Drupal can be a difficult and time consuming process. In this demo we present JooMDD, an environment for model-driven development of software extensions for the WCMS Joomla. JooMDD allows the rapid development of standardised software extensions requiring reduced technological knowledge of Joomla. This implies that even inexperienced developers are able to create their own functional WCMS extensions. This demonstrates that a model-driven approach is suitable for the domain of WCMSs.A supporting video illustrating the main features and a demonstration of JooMDD can be found at: https://youtu. be/Uy WBIjPldI.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

JooMDD

Priefer

Kneisel

Taentzer

2016

Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Software Engineering Companion

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“…Its abstract syntax is defined with the CMS Common Metamodel [14]. It is supported by an UML-like graphical editor implemented in Graphical Modeling Framework (GMF) [14].…”

Section: Cms Dslmentioning

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“…Its abstract syntax is defined with the CMS Common Metamodel [14]. It is supported by an UML-like graphical editor implemented in Graphical Modeling Framework (GMF) [14]. For this implementation, we used EuGENia [15] which is a tool that generates automatically the models .gmfgraph, .gmftool and .gmfmap which implement the UML-like graphical editor in GMF.…”

Section: Cms Dslmentioning

confidence: 99%

Re-CMS

Trias¹,

Jiménez-Báez²,

López-Sanz³

et al. 2015

Proceedings of the 30th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

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The necessity for evolving existing Web applications has become one of the major problems faced by organizations. Content Management Systems (CMS) have proved to be the best platforms to manage huge amounts of digital content in a reliable manner. Thus, many organizations have experienced the necessity of migrating their legacy Web applications to these CMS platforms which meet their needs better. Model-driven reengineering methods have shown their efficiency in such kind of evolution and migration processes, but they only become effective when they are automated by using appropriate tools. This work presents the RE-CMS toolkit, a toolkit that automates a model-driven reengineering method defined for the migration of traditional Web applications to CMS platforms. The RE-CMS toolkit supports the extraction of knowledge from a Web application and its representation within a CMS domain from which a modern CMSbased Web application may be generated. To validate its usability, we present a case study where a traditional Web application is migrated to Wordpress, one of the most used CMS platforms.

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“…According to the chosen bottom-up development approach, a generalisation of the presented approach to other CMSs cannot be excluded. Approaches, like the proposal of [7], have similar intentions and propose ways to consider several CMSs within an independent meta model. The described methodology for the development of an abstract meta model for CMSs may possibly adapted to general our approach to other CMSs.…”

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“…However, the approach for CMSs with their specific objects and functionality with a specialized focus on extensions and their connection to the CMS core is new. Besides the approaches of UWE (UML-based Web Engineering) [2], WebML (Web Modelling Language) [1] and WSL (Web Specific Language) [6], other approaches for modelling languages like [7], [3], [9] and the TOGAF Content Metamodel 9 , or infrastructures as described in [5] and [4] exist. To handle model and data evolution within migration processes we will examine the suitability of the approach described in [8], which deals with model evolution.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Model-driven development of content management systems based on Joomla

Priefer

2014

Proceedings of the 29th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Automated Software Engineering

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Today's web consists of dynamic web sites with a wide range of functionality, whereby most of the sites are based on Content Management Systems (CMS). CMSs became a de facto standard as basic frameworks for web applications, because they provide lots of existing features and a high usability. Even though typical CMSs come along with lots of core functions, the most of them are extensible through different extension types. Through these extensions CMS-based applications become fully adequate web applications. One of the most popular CMSs is Joomla, which is extensible through external functionality. During the development and maintenance of both external functionality and concrete Joomla-based sites, some obstacles occur. One of the most substantial obstacle occurs when a new version of the core CMS platform is released. A further migration process is always an extremely time-consuming process.Through the use of model-driven development (MDD) a lot of the invested development and maintenance effort can be reduced, especially when new platform versions appear frequently. This paper proposes an MDD approach to the Joomla CMS, and contains several use cases for both forward engineering and reverse engineering of Joomla extensions and Joomla-based web sites with concrete data which shall be used for a faster and simpler migration process.

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Building CMS-based Web applications using a model-driven approach

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