Modeling Web Applications : A Different Perspective

Abstract - Traditional web applications do not support reverse engineering capabilities and it become difficult to recover navigation, content from web applications. This paper describes web application modeling with different perspective .Conventional modeling either use UML or MVC This papers proposes web application modeling to recover these aspects with an hybrid approach using UML and MVC. Many models have been defined for capturing different aspects of a user interface. There has been several attempts to model a web application but none address the complete model recovery of web applications Although UML has been widely accepted as a standard language to specify software models, it was not designed with user interfaces in mind. This is precisely the reason why no particular model in UML is very successful in capturing details of user interactions and interface design We state out some issues in this paper related to UML modeling of a web applications and propose a hybrid method of modeling a structure of web page and simultaneously navigational aspect of a web page. A combination of UML and MVC is proposed in this paper which bring out the best of both. New stereotypes have been used to support the hybrid method of modeling. Our modeling method tries to capture structural, navigational and functional aspects of web application.