Metamodels Evaluation of Web Engineering Methodologies to Develop Web Applications

Abstract

The purpose of a metamodel in web engineering methodologies is for the platform independent analysis as well as the design of the content, navigation, and presentation issues of web applications. In the previous years, numbers of methodologies for the development of web applications were proposed, and most of them defined their notation for creating metamodels. The increasing expansion and complexity of web applications are a new challenge for web software developers. This paper presents a comparison study between metamodel of the three methodologies which are; UML-Based Web Engineering (UWE), Web Modeling Language (WebML) and Object Oriented Hypermedia (OOH). The aim is to show the capability of the methodologies to address the challenges in developing the web applications. The evaluation results presented in this paper help the designer in providing initial knowledge of the strengths and weaknesses of the three methodologies for developing web applications.