Building eCommerce Systems from Shared Micro-schemas

Abstract. Popular content management systems such as WordPress and Drupal offer a plug-in mechanism that allows users to extend the platform with additional functionality. However, plug-ins are typically isolated extensions defining their own data structures, application logic and user interface, and are difficult to combine. We address the fact that users may want to configure their applications more freely through the composition of such extensions. We present an approach and model for component-based web engineering based on the concept of components and connectors between them, supporting composition at the level of the schema and data, the application logic and the user interface. We show how our approach can be used to integrate component-based web engineering into platforms such as WordPress. We demonstrate the benefits of the approach by presenting a composition plug-in that showcases component composition through configurable connectors based on an eCommerce application scenario.

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“…Schema-level connectors compose components based on schema elements, such as specialisation and associations [13]. As shown in Fig.…”

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Integrating Component-Based Web Engineering into Content Management Systems

Leone

Spindler

Norrie

et al. 2013

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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“…At the model level, we rely on structural composition based on the underlying model's modelling concepts [13]. The association connector defines an association between two entity connection points and the specialisation connector defines an isA relationship between two entities.…”

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“…[11][12][13]. Thalheim [11] proposes the use of composable subschemas and other metastructures to support the modelling and management of large and complex database schemas.…”

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“…They also support incremental database development between versions of databases of different development phases through a mechanism that supports the importation of data from one version of a database into another, either as read-only or fully modifiable, in order to support incremental system design [14]. In our previous work [13], we showed, how structural composition can be supported through native constructs of the data modelling language.…”

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Model-Driven Composition of Information Systems from Shared Components and Connectors

Leone

Spindler²,

McLeod

2013

On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2013 Conferences

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Abstract. We introduce CompIS, an approach, model and platform for model-driven component-based information system engineering. Our approach is based on the concept of shared components and connectors between them. To address the data-intensive nature of information systems, our components follow an extended model-view-control structure that also includes data. Component composition is based on configurable connectors, which define the collaboration logic between components and support component composition at the level of the component model, view, control and data. The CompIS UML profile allows to graphically define new components, connectors and compositions. The CompIS platform is a model-driven engineering environment, based on an extended object database that natively integrates the CompIS model. From graphical UML model definitions, the platform automatically generates application code that creates and initialises components and connectors. We present and validate our approach in the eCommerce domain.

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“…Non-expert users can select provided components and compose them graphically to construct their personal information space. A refined and generalised version of the module was used as a basis to realise a community-based design and development platform for eCommerce systems [LN11]. Developers can build tailored eCommerce solutions based on a set of components that represent basic eCommerce building blocks, and can be selectively customised and composed.…”

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A Platform to Support Object Database Research.

Grossniklaus¹,

Leone²,

Spindler³

et al. 2013

JOT

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Databases play a key role in an increasingly diverse range of applications and settings. New requirements are continually emerging and may differ substantially from one domain to another, sometimes even to the point of conflict. To address these challenges, database systems are evolving to cater for new application domains. Yet little attention has been given to the process of researching and developing database concepts in response to new requirements. We present a platform designed to support database research in terms of experimentation with different aspects of database systems ranging from the data model to the distribution architecture. Our platform is based on the notion of metamodel extension modules, inspired by proposals for adaptive and configurable database management systems. However, rather than building a tailored system from existing components, we focus on the process of designing new components. To qualitatively evaluate our platform, we present a series of case studies where our approach was used successfully to experiment with concepts designed to support a variety of novel application domains.

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Building eCommerce Systems from Shared Micro-schemas

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Integrating Component-Based Web Engineering into Content Management Systems

Integrating Component-Based Web Engineering into Content Management Systems

Model-Driven Composition of Information Systems from Shared Components and Connectors

A Platform to Support Object Database Research.

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