MULTI-PLATFORM MODEL-DRIVEN SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT OF WEB APPLICATIONS

We present the generator framework WASL, which supports model-driven development of web applications. It enables the modeling of data, navigation, business logic, and presentation logic. WASL supports the MDA by providing transformation definitions from a computation-independent model (CIM) to a platform-independent model (PIM) and then to a platform-specific model (PSM). An important aspect of our approach is that we provide a separate DSL for each target platform in order to separate concerns between PIM and PSM and to be able to address platform-specific aspects. Currently, the frequently used platforms Java, PHP, and Python are supported.