Model-driven iterative development of 3D web-applications using SSIML, X3D and JavaScript

  • Authors:
  • Matthias Lenk;Arnd Vitzthum;Bernhard Jung

  • Affiliations:
  • TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Virtual Reality and Multimedia Group;University of Cooperative Education;TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Virtual Reality and Multimedia Group

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on 3D Web Technology
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

In traditional software engineering domains, Model-Driven Development (MDD) using UML or domain-specific languages (DSL) is successfully established. Although MDD is a particularly promising approach to avoid implementation errors due to miscommunication between heterogenous developer groups, only a few MDD approaches for 3D-development have been proposed so far. In this paper, we describe how one such MDD approach, SSIML, can be extended to a full round-trip engineering approach to structured 3D-development. Round-trip engineering combines a forward phase, where code is automatically generated from an abstract model of the application, with a reverse phase, where manual code edits are merged back into the abstract model. The proposed approach is demonstrated with the development of 3D web applications based on X3D/X3DOM and JavaScript.