Methodologies to develop Web Information Systems and Comparative Analysis

Abstract

New systems are currently being developed which have different aims from the systems developed some years ago. Current systems tend to be distributed, with huge storage needs and complex functional requirements. But these systems are also distributed via Internet so interface, information recovery, navigation and multimedia are all fundamental aspects. These new systems are known as Web Information Systems (WIS). The complexity of these systems and the fact that they are systems requiring constant maintenance due to the fact that they continually change to adapt to users’ new requirements means that they have to be developed using a standardized process. There is currently no standard methodology accepted by all the software engineering community. This paper presents the result of a comparative study analysing the different methodologies which are currently applicable to the development of a Web Information System.