Abstract:
XML is becoming increasingly a popular medium in industrial
informatics for (a) storing and representing unstructured and semi-structured
information such as web coruent and (b) messaging between heterogeneous data
sources. For both these purposes it is important to provide a high level, model
driven solution to design and implement websites that are capable of handling
heterogenous schemas and documents. For this, we need a methodology, that
provides higher level of abstraction of the domain in question (here the web)
with rigorously defined standards that are to be more widely understood by all
stakeholders of the system. To achieve this, in this paper, we propose an XMLview
driven design and architecture solution (methodology) for web
engineering called xWeb. This methodology uses Object-Oriented (00)
conceptual modeling techniques in combination with proven higher-level web
user interface engineering and data engineering techniques that provides a
comprehensive, yet generic web design methodology. Also. xWeb architecture
utilizes XML technologies without requirements for a middleware and provides
support for web portals.
