Rapid Development of Modular Dynamic Web Sites Using UML

Development of dynamic Web sites is often performed by teams consisting of graphic designers and software developers. Communication between these different team members has to be supported with a simple modeling approach that considers their different academical backgrounds. Dynamic Web sites can contain multiple modules that may reappear on different pages. Reuse of both business logic and visual design modules would be desirable. Furthermore, a considerable amount of time is usually consumed by the implementation of data flows that are already defined in the model. Rapid development is enabled by providing roundtrip engineering capabilities with support for automatic code generation. We propose a simple subset of the UML adapted to the problem domain by means of stereotypes as well as a strategy for generating code templates from such models. These templates are tailored to the tasks of each team member. This enables parallel work and automated reintegration of results.