Web modeling ( model-driven Web development) is a branch of Web engineering that addresses the specific issues related to design and development of large-scale Web applications. In particular, it focuses on the design notations and visual languages that can be used for the realization of robust, well-structured, usable and maintainable Web applications.

Models

Designing a data-intensive website amounts to specifying its characteristics in terms of various orthogonal abstractions. The main models that are involved in complex Web application design are: data structure, content composition, navigation paths, and presentation model. Several languages and notations have been devised for Web application modeling. One influential example is WebML, which was proposed as a conceptual notation for specifying complex web sites and separating their structure, hypertext/navigation and presentation models. Among them:

• RMM

• OOHDM

• ARANEUS

• STRUDEL

• TIRAMISU

• HDM — W2000

• the Interaction Flow Modeling Language (IFML), adopted by the Object Management Group (OMG) in March 2013

• WebML

• Hera

• UML Web Application Extension

• UML-based Web Engineering (UWE)

• ACE

• WebArchitect

• OO-H

One of the main discussion venues for this discipline is the Model-Driven Web Engineering Workshop (MDWE) held yearly in conjunction with the International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE) conference.

References

External links

• Most Common Website Performance Issues

• ADA Website Compliance & Web Accessibility