An Analysis of Model-Driven Web Engineering Methodologies

In the late 1990's, there was substantial activity within the \Web engineer- ing" research community and a multitude of new Web approaches were proposed. How- ever, numerous studies have revealed major gaps in these approaches, including cover- age and interoperability . In order to address these gaps, the Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) paradigm offers a new approach which has been demonstrated to achieve good re- sults within applied research environments. This paper presents an analysis of a selection of Web development methodologies that are using the MDE paradigm in their develop- ment process and assesses whether MDE can provide an effective solution to address the aforementioned problems. This paper presents a critical review of previous studies of classical Web methodologies and makes a case for the potential of the MDWE paradigm as a means of addressing long-standing problems of Web development, for both research and enterprise. A selection of the main MDWE development approaches are analyzed and compared in accordance with criteria derived from the literature. The paper con- cludes that this new trend opens an interesting new way to develop Web systems within practical projects and argues that some classical gaps can be improved with MDWE.

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