A Model Transformation Approach for Automatic Composition of COTS User Interfaces in Web-Based Information Systems

Abstract

Globalization of the information and the Knowledge Society requires the modernization of Web-based Information Systems (WIS) into evolutive and adaptable user interfaces. Today, WIS user interfaces are built following traditional development paradigms. This article is inspired on a Model-Driven Development (MDD) perspective to produce runtime automatic composition of user interfaces from model and metamodel representations of widgets-type COTS interface components architectures and model transformation.

Keywords:

• model transformation
• model-driven development (MDD)
• user interfaces
• web-based information systems (WIS)
• COTS components
• widgets
• cotsgets

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

This work has been supported by the EU (FEDER) and the Spanish MICINN under grant of the project I+D TIN2007-61497 “SOLERES. A Spatio-Temporal Environmental Management System based on Neural-Networks, Agents and Software Component” (http://www.ual.es/acg/soleres).