Form-Oriented Analysis A New Methodology to Model Form-Based Applications /

• Main Authors: Draheim, Dirk (Author), Weber, Gerald (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2005.
• Subjects: Computer science.; Software engineering.; Computers.; User interfaces (Computer systems).; Application software.; Computer Science.; Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems.; Software Engineering.; Models and Principles.; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet).; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction.; Computer Appl. in Administrative Data Processing.

Form-based applications range from simple web shops to complex enterprise resource planning systems. Draheim and Weber adapt well-established basic modeling techniques in a novel way to achieve a modeling framework optimized for this broad application domain. They introduce new modeling artifacts, s...

Table of Contents:

• Modeling Form-Based Systems
• The Form-Based System Paradigm
• Exploring the Online Bookshop
• Form Storyboarding
• Formcharts and Dialogue Specification
• Model Decomposition and Refinement
• Data Modeling
• Message-Based Modeling of Data Interchange
• A Descriptive Approach
• Tool Support
• Forward Engineering and Reverse Engineering
• Typed Server Pages
• Semantics
• The Integrated Source Code Paradigm
• State History Diagrams
• Semantics of the Data Model
• Semantics of Web Signatures
• Conclusion
• A Comparison of Modeling Methods
• Summary.