Generating domain specific aspect code for navigation from platform specific models in MWACSL

Abstract

MWACSL1 is an Aspect-Oriented and Model-Driven approach for software development in the context of web applications. MWACSL uses domain specific aspect languages for dealing with the different aspects of a system. In this context one application is composed of a primary model and a set of aspect models, each one expressed by means of a Domain Specific Aspect Language. Furthermore, MWACSL is also based on Model-Driven Architecture as a way of separating the technological details. If we look at the horizontal dimension of MWACSL, this paper is focused on the platform specific level, while looking at the vertical dimension, the focus is on the navigational aspect. The specific platform is Spring Web Flow, a framework that has been thought for defining navigation flows. The main contributions of the paper are the definition of a metamodel for Spring Web Flow and a set of model to text transformations to generate web flows. These contributions can be considered as part of the MWACSL approach.