Model-driven Rich Form Generation

The Model Driven Development (MDD) has provided a new way of engineering today's rapidly changing requirements into the implementation. However, the development of the user interface (UI) part of an application has not benefited much from MDD although today's UIs are complex software components and play an essential role in the usability of an application. One of main obstacles in model-driven UI development is due largely to 131 developers' common practice. They usually prefer creating view forms manually by referring to persistent classes to determine their content. However, such a way of manual creation is Very error-prone and thus makes the system maintenance more difficult. One promise in MDD is that we can generate code from UML models, but existing design models in MDD can not capture enough information that are required to generate desired UI fragments. Our approach presented in this paper makes it possible to generate complex UIs, rich view forms, that fully satisfy both designers and end-users while enforcing the system access control.