E-MDAV: A Framework for Developing Data-Intensive Web Applications

Paolo Bocciarelli,Tommaso Panetti,Andrea Giglio,Andrea D’Ambrogio

doi:10.3390/informatics9010012

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Journal: Informatics (MDPI)	Publication Date: Feb 12, 2022
Citations: 2	License type: CC BY 4.0

Affiliation: University of Rome Tor Vergata

Abstract

The ever-increasing adoption of innovative technologies, such as big data and cloud computing, provides significant opportunities for organizations operating in the IT domain, but also introduces considerable challenges. Such innovations call for development processes that better align with stakeholders needs and expectations. In this respect, this paper introduces a development framework based on the OMG’s Model Driven Architecture (MDA) that aims to support the development lifecycle of data-intensive web applications. The proposed framework, named E-MDAV (Extended MDA-VIEW), defines a methodology that exploits a chain of model transformations to effectively cope with both forward- and reverse-engineering aspects. In addition, E-MDAV includes the specification of a reference architecture for driving the implementation of a tool that supports the various professional roles involved in the development and maintenance of data-intensive web applications. In order to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed E-MDAV framework, a tool prototype has been developed. E-MDAV has then been applied to two different application scenarios and the obtained results have been compared with historical data related to the implementation of similar development projects, in order to measure and discuss the benefits of the proposed approach.

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This section provides the necessary background about the main concepts at the basis of this paper, i.e., model-driven development, DevOps, and cloud computing.3.1
One of the most important initiatives driven by Model-Driven ArchitectureModel-driven development (MDD) is the Model Driven Architecture (MDA), the Object Management Group (OMG) incarnation of MDD principles [9]
This paper has introduced E-MDAV (Extended MDA-VIEW), a framework for supporting the development process of data-intensive and web-based applications

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Introduction

We provide the necessary background about the main concepts at the basis of this paper, i.e., model-driven development, DevOps, and cloud computing.3.1. We provide the necessary background about the main concepts at the basis of this paper, i.e., model-driven development, DevOps, and cloud computing. Model-driven development (MDD) is an approach to software design and implementation that addresses the rising complexity of execution platforms by focusing on the use of formal models [22]. The founding pillars of MDD are constituted by model transformations. The Model-Driven Architecture prescribes that various models have to be specified throughout the application development lifecycle. Such models, which provide different views of the system, are specified from viewpoints focusing on particular system concerns

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