Web Engineering: The Developers' View and a Practitioner's Approach

  • Authors:
  • Sotiris P. Christodoulou;Paris A. Zafiris;Theodore S. Papatheodorou

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • Web Engineering, Software Engineering and Web Application Development
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

The expanding role of the Web as a content and applications deployment platform and the appearance of new computing paradigms, such as thin-client computing, require now more than ever the introduction of concrete development frameworks. Although new approaches, technologies, tools, commercial applications appear daily, limited guidelines or frameworks exist that can assist Web developers in selecting the proper methodology and tools for the design, implementation and maintenance of flexible Web content and applications. Our work, triggered from our experience in implementing the Web presence of several large Greek Governmental organisations, attempts to address the major current and forthcoming problems that Web developers face. We propose a framework (RDF/XML based) that will act as a malleable development support environment, incorporating specific guidelines, which Web developers should always consider. The primary goals are achieving scalability (modular, component-based architecture), re-usability and technology independency in Web development. We focus on hypermedia content and applications.