Generation of WebML web application models from business process specifications

This short paper aims at demonstrating the integration of workflow specifications with conceptual models for Web application design. In particular, we propose a visual editor of business process diagrams (according to the BPMN notation), which seamlessly integrates into the commercial CASE tool called WebRatio, which allows the designer to model data-intensive and service-intensive Web applications based on WebML (Web Modeling Language) models. A set of model transformations from BPMN workflow diagrams to WebML hypertext diagrams allows fast generation of site skeletons implementing the specified business process. Such skeletons can be modified by the designer that is relieved from the time-consuming and error-prone task of specifying all the details of the workflow constraints.