Model-Driven Development and Assembly of Content Management Applications

The use of service-oriented development architectures can speed up business application development allowing market changes to quickly be reflected in enterprise software. We have developed a novel service-oriented development architecture and associated tooling to support on model-driven development of content management based applications. This architecture supports the set of roles necessary for content management: Data Architect and Component Integrator. The data architect role is concerned with capturing domain knowledge using tooling that supports visual repository schema design and data modeling in a disconnected mode. The Component Integrator role assembles business and process logic at a high level of abstraction, potentially without the need for specialized coding skills. The challenge addressed by this approach is to bridge the gaps found at the boundaries of development tooling and allow for a smooth transition across the various roles involved in the development of content management based enterprise applications.