GUI GENERATION BASED ON LANGUAGE EXTENSIONS - A Model to Generate GUI, based on Source Code with Custom Attributes

Marco Monteiro, Paula Oliveira, Ramiro Gonçalves

2008

Abstract

Due to data-driven application nature and its increasing complexity, developing its user interface can be a repetitive and time-consuming activity. Consequently, developers tend to focus more on the user interface aspects and less on business related code. In this paper, we’re presenting an alternative approach to graphical user interface development for data-driven applications, that allows developers to refocus on the source code and concentrate their efforts on application core logic. The key concept behind our approach is the generation of concrete graphical user interface from a source code based model, which includes the original source code metadata and non-intrusive declarative language extensions that describes the user interface structure. Concrete user interface implementation will be delegated to specialized software packages, developed by external entities, that provides complete graphical user interfaces services to the application. When applying our approach, we’re expecting faster graphical user interface development.

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in Harvard Style

Monteiro M., Oliveira P. and Gonçalves R. (2008). GUI GENERATION BASED ON LANGUAGE EXTENSIONS - A Model to Generate GUI, based on Source Code with Custom Attributes . In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-8111-36-4, pages 449-452. DOI: 10.5220/0001691604490452


in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis08,
author={Marco Monteiro and Paula Oliveira and Ramiro Gonçalves},
title={GUI GENERATION BASED ON LANGUAGE EXTENSIONS - A Model to Generate GUI, based on Source Code with Custom Attributes},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,},
year={2008},
pages={449-452},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001691604490452},
isbn={978-989-8111-36-4},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,
TI - GUI GENERATION BASED ON LANGUAGE EXTENSIONS - A Model to Generate GUI, based on Source Code with Custom Attributes
SN - 978-989-8111-36-4
AU - Monteiro M.
AU - Oliveira P.
AU - Gonçalves R.
PY - 2008
SP - 449
EP - 452
DO - 10.5220/0001691604490452