Connecting Interaction Models and Application Logic for Model-Driven Generation of Web-Based Graphical User Interfaces

In the research on automated (design-time) generation of graphical user interfaces (GUIs), the focus is on how such a generation works and on the resulting GUI´s appearance. However, the integration of the software part implementing the resulting GUI with an application logic does not appear to be in a well-defined software architecture. We propose an integration in the well-known Model-View-Controller (MVC) architecture, with its decoupling of different concerns and the resulting software properties. We show that most of its components can be automatically generated from Discourse-based Communication Models. We also show how these models connect to an application logic. In this way, we present an implemented and tested approach to connecting a high-level interaction model and the Web-based GUI software generated from it with an application logic and its implementation in the context of model-driven GUI generation.