Model Driven Development of Web Application with SPACE Method and Tool-suit

Abstract

Enterprise level software development using traditional software engineeringapproaches with third-generation programming languages is becoming morechallenging and cumbersome task with the increased complexity of products,shortened development cycles and heightened expectations of quality. MDD(Model Driven Development) has been counting as an exciting and magicaldevelopment approach in the software industry from several years. The ideabehind MDD is the separation of business logic of a system from its implementationdetails expressing problem domain using models. This separation andmodeling of problem domain simplify the process of system design as well asincrease the longevity of products as new technologies can be adopted easily.With appropriate tool support, MDD shortens the software development lifecycle drastically by automating a significant portion of development steps.MDA (Model Driven Architecture) is a framework launched by OMG (ObjectManagement Group) to support MDD. SPACE is an engineering methodfor rapid creation of services, developed at NTNU (Norwegian University ofScience and Technology) which follows MDA framework. Arctis and Ramsesare tool suits, also developed at NTNU to support SPACE method. Severalsolutions have been developed on Arctis tool suit covering several domainslike mobile services, embedded systems, home automation, trust managementand web services.This thesis presents a case study on the web application domain with Arctis,where the underlying technologies are AJAX (asynchronous JavaScriptand XML), GWT (Google Web Toolkit) framework and Java Servlet. Inorder to do that, this thesis contributes building up some reusable buildingblocks with Arctis tool suit. This thesis also describes a use case scenario touse those building blocks. This thesis work tries to implement the specifiedsystem and evaluates the resulting work.