Internet Application Modelling Language

This is the research home page for the Internet Application Modelling Language (IAML); a model-driven approach to the development of Rich Internet Applications. This has been the topic of my Ph.D. research, now in its final year. This server provides some running demonstrations as well as related publications.

IAML is made possible using the following technologies:

1. A new modelling language, defined in the Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF)
2. An Eclipse-based graphical editor, provided by the Graphical Modeling Framework (GMF)
3. Automatic knowledge inference through the JBoss Drools rule engine
4. Code generation to PHP, Javascript, HTML, CSS and SQL using openArchitectureWare

For more information on the development process of IAML, please see the poster presented at NZCSRSC 2010.

• Initial proposal
• IAML Project on Google Code
  • Installation Guide
  • Hello World in IAML
  • Report Bugs
• Authors hosted at Massey University, New Zealand
  • Jevon Wright <j.m.wright@massey.ac.nz>
  • Dr Jens Dietrich <j.b.dietrich@massey.ac.nz>

Non-Montonic Model Completion in Web Application Engineering

This paper, submitted to ASWEC 2010, proposes model completion -- a formal framework to infer modelling elements. Model completion is a non-monotonic process and formalises the notion of the intended model, permitting the web application developer to focus on application design rather than scaffolding. Benchmarking an implementation of this process for a platform-independent web application modelling language illustrates its significant potential to simplify model-driven development.

• Submitted paper
• Presentation at ASWEC 2010
• Additional information
  • Eclipse-based Implementation
• Implementation
  • Implementation of an insertion cache in Drools
  • Metrics of EMF models
• Test suite
  • 131 model completion rules
  • 110 test models
  • Raw metrics data
  • Recompiling the metrics

The Development of a Modelling Language for Rich Internet Applications

This short paper, submitted to NZCSRSC 2010, briefly discusses the ongoing development of the IAML meta-model and its accompanying CASE tool.

• Submitted paper
• Poster at NZCSRSC 2010
• Additional information
  • Eclipse-based Implementation
  • Sample model instance (XMI)

Requirements for Rich Internet Application Design Methodologies

This paper, presented at WISE 2008, focuses on the definition and publication of 59 core requirements for design methodologies in rich internet applications. These requirements have been combined into a benchmarking application called Ticket 2.0, which has now been implemented as an open-source proof-of-concept below. Along with our example open source implementation, we invite interested researchers and industry partners to develop this benchmarking application in their language or framework of choice so they may understand the challenges faced with developing suitable modelling approaches in the future.

• Submitted paper
• Presentation at WISE 08
• Additional information
  • Implementation checklist
• Ticket 2.0 implemented in Symfony framework
  • Live demonstration
  • Implementation notes
  • Installation instructions
  • Source code (Browse)
  • Preliminary metrics
  • Provide feedback or report a bug

Use Cases for Rich Internet Applications

In order to define the requirements of Rich Internet Applications, we first need to understand what these applications can achieve. This white paper, previously mentioned in our APCCM 08 paper, covers a range of the potential use cases of RIAs, and presents them in a standard use case format.

• Use cases for Rich Internet Applications

Relevant Publications

1. J. Wright and J. Dietrich, "Non-Montonic Model Completion in Web Application Engineering," in Proceedings of the 21st Australian Software Engineering Conference (ASWEC 2010), Auckland, New Zealand, 2010. pdf, slides
2. J. Wright and J. Dietrich, "Requirements for Rich Internet Application Design Methodologies," in Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE 2008), Auckland, New Zealand, 2008. pdf, slides, [DOI]
3. J. Wright and J. Dietrich, "Survey of Existing Languages to Model Interactive Web Applications," in Proceedings of the 5th Asia-Pacific Conference on Conceptual Modelling (APCCM 2008), Wollongong, NSW, Australia, 2008. pdf, slides
4. more...

Contact Details

• Jevon Wright: j.m.wright@massey.ac.nz

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