Leveraging declarative languages in web application development

Vuorimaa, Petri; Laine, Markku; Litvinova, Evgenia; Shestakov, Denis

doi:10.1007/s11280-015-0339-z

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“…In particular, we candidate those sharing more characteristics with respect to the proposed tool, choosing the one guaranteeing best stability. Thus, we discarded research prototypes (not stable enough for the average EU participants 14,23 ), tools relying on textual programming paradigms, 26,34 and those not supporting the generation of data-driven WebApps. 16,17 As a result of this selection process, we have chosen Ebase Xi since it is the one guaranteeing the best trade-off between usability and stability.…”

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“…XIDE is a unified markup language-based platform built on a reusable component-based architecture to support EU programmers in the creation of database-driven WebApps. 26 The markup language uses XForms and XHTML on the client-side together with XForms and XFormsDB processors on the server side. Since the framework is based on the XForm language, EU programmers can leverage their knowledge on markup language concepts by using XHTML and XForm documents to build WebApps.…”

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Enabling the generation of web applications from mockups

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Mockups are widely used to elicit and validate user requirements in web applications, and several intuitive tools have been developed in recent years, actively involving the end user in the requirements solicitation process. However, most current web development approaches and tools discard mockups after the information-gathering process, abandoning the opportunity to exploit underlying information in them for autogenerating functional web applications. To overcome this limitation, we have devised a method for deriving the database schema and the logic of the web application from the information contained within mockups. In particular, the method gathers clues on how to organize the data and the control flow of the web application by analyzing the structure and relationships of the widgets in the mockup. Based on the proposed method, we have implemented a tool supporting the generation of web applications abiding by the model-view-controller architectural pattern. The tool has been evaluated by involving several end users in the development of web applications for different domains. KEYWORDS business information systems, database, end-user development, human-computer interaction, mockups, web application modeling Softw Pract Exper. 2018;48:945-973.wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/spe

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Enabling the generation of web applications from mockups

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“…Escrever até mesmo aplicações web simples requer um grande esforço, pois, em geral, desenvolvedores web precisam utilizar diferentes linguagens de programação, bibliotecas e frameworks em um mesmo projeto, e também lidar com conflitos entre eles. Além disso, o desenvolvimento de uma aplicação web pode envolver diversos arquivos de configuração e código específico para tornar as múltiplas camadas interoperáveis (SINHA; KARIM; GUPTA, 2015; SALAS-ZARATE et al, 2015;VUORIMAA et al, 2016). Consequentemente, a dificuldade para se desenvolver aplicações webé alta mesmo para desenvolvedores experientes (SINHA;KARIM;GUPTA, 2015;SWAIN et al, 2016).…”

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Um >i<web framework >/i<para C++: projeto, implementação e avaliação

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Web applications are, typically, client-server programs where clients consume services provided by a web server. Web applications can be as simple as portals that display static and dynamic content as applications involving database use, interaction with other information systems, and the processing of complex algorithms and large data volumes. In general, to develop more complex applications, even more experienced developers face a number of challenges: complex configuration and difficult to learn as they need to use different programming languages, libraries, frameworks, configuration files and specific code to make multiple layers interoperable; low maintainability, due to the complex configuration, conflicts between libraries and frameworks and the intertwining of business, control and presentation code allowed in various solutions; high computational resource consumption due to processing and communication cost introduced by the large number of components of a webtext architecture; and poor performance, due to the high dependence on interpreted languages and the communication between several modules, libraries and frameworks. In this context, the main objective of this research project is to propose and evaluate a solution for web development that mitigates the main issues related to the current scenario mentioned above. The solution was presented in the form of a new web framework called CWF, which supports the development of applications written in the C++ language. The design decisions of the proposed web framework were to achieve high performance by using a compiled language; low consumption of computational resources (memory and processing); simple configuration mechanisms; separation of the presentation layer (HTML, for example) from the business layer (backend code); and being crossplatform. The web framework was evaluated for its ease of installation, configuration and use through user experiments, as well as performance tests and computational resource consumption. The results give evidence that CWF is easy to install, configure, use and performs well with response time and resource consumption such as RAM and processor. In addition, it has already been used in the development of real applications, both in Brazil and abroad.

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“…XFormsDB [35] is a declarative data binding solution that binds to server-side data. It is based on the XForms 3 , a W3C Recommendation, that was designed to be the next generation of HTML forms and used a Model-View-Controller approach.…”

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