The WebConsultant - a Flexible Framework for Dynamic Web Applications

  • Authors:
  • Andreas Turk;Frank Farnschläder;Horst Silberhorn;Herbert Stoyan;Stefan Kreutter

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • EC-WEB '00 Proceedings of the First International Conference on Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

Web-based consultancy and e-commerce are important services in the rapidly growing internet market. The engineering of Web-based consultancy applications is like the engineering of Web applications in general not yet supported by a methodical approach and adequate process models. This article presents a process model for Web software engineering and an appropriate execution model for Web consultancy. The models have been used in the specification and prototypic implementation of the WebConsultant, a tool that collects customer data in a client-server architecture in order to decide on the subsequent course of the interview. The XML-application ISDL is used to define the structure and flow of interviews. The content of an ISDL-document determines the course of an interview dependent on the customer's input. As a result, consultancy Web pages that display relevant extracts of a database are produced.