HDM—a model-based approach to hypertext application design
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Hypertext design environments and the hypertext design process
Communications of the ACM
An object oriented approach to Web-based applications design
Theory and Practice of Object Systems - Special issue objects, databases, and the WWW
Web Modeling Language (WebML): a modeling language for designing Web sites
Proceedings of the 9th international World Wide Web conference on Computer networks : the international journal of computer and telecommunications netowrking
JWEB: An Innovative Architecture for Web Applications
ICSC '99 Proceedings of the 5th International Computer Science Conference on Internet Applications
From Web Sites to Web Applications: New Issues for Conceptual Modeling
ER '00 Proceedings of the Workshops on Conceptual Modeling Approaches for E-Business and The World Wide Web and Conceptual Modeling: Conceptual Modeling for E-Business and the Web
HDM2: Extending the E-R Approach to Hypermedia Application Design
ER '93 Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on the Entity-Relationship Approach: Entity-Relationship Approach
EDBT '98 Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Extending Database Technology: Advances in Database Technology
Model transformations from requirements to web system design
ICWE '06 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Web engineering
Towards a common metamodel for the development of web applications
ICWE'03 Proceedings of the 2003 international conference on Web engineering
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Web-based hypermedia systems are becoming more and more sophisticated, new modeling requirements constantly arise, and design models must constantly evolve. Since design tools should complement models to support an efficient design process, model evolution raises a technological issue: Design tools must be modified when their underlying model changes. This is why the paper proposes a general approach to efficiently update design tools in response to model evolutions. The key ideas are: a) the description of a hypermedia model in terms of a general meta-model, powerful enough to express the semantics of current and future design constructs; b) the transformation of a hypermedia design tool into a meta-CASE tool, able to cope with model updates without requiring to be redefined and rebuilt from scratch.The approach is presented by discussing a case study, that is, the feasibility study to transform our design toolkit, Jweb, into a meta-CASE tool (Jweb3). This tool will support the latest version of our model (called W2000), and will easily evolve with the model it supports. We discuss the adoption of the OMG metamodeling standards MOF and XMI as enabling technology, we present a sample of the representation of W2000 in terms of MOF, and we sketch the architecture of the under-implementation Jweb3.