Designing Rich Internet Applications Combining UWE and RUX-Method

The rapidly increasing importance of rich Internet applications (RIAs) calls for systematic RIA development methods. However, most current Web engineering methods focus on Web 1.0 applications only; RIAs, on the contrary, are still developed in an ad-hoc manner, which often results in error-prone and hard-to-maintain products. We propose a model-driven approach to RIA development by combining the UML-based Web engineering (UWE) method for data and business logic modeling with the RUX-method for the user interface modeling of RIAs.