Smart tools to support meta-design paradigm for developing web based business applications

Abstract

Many Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) tend to gradually adopt Web based business applications to enhance their business processes. To support this gradual adoption we need a framework that supports iterative development. Further processes that have been supported by web based business applications can change and evolve requiring applications to be changed accordingly. To support these needs we have extended the Component Based E Application Development and Deployment Shell; CBEADS©. We analysed many business applications and derived a meta-model. We implemented this meta-model with in CBEADS© and developed a set of Smart Tools to take the instance values of the meta-model and generate the web based business applications. When a new business application is required, a business analyst can create a new instance of the meta-model. To change an implemented business application the appropriate values of the meta-model instance that corresponds to the particular application can be changed. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007.