User interface and navigation modeling methodology for mobile hypermedia systems

Abstract

This paper shows a methodology for modeling data centric mobile web applications. This approach takes the activity process defined in OOHDM (Object Oriented Hypermedia Design Method) unifying navigation and abstract interface modeling in a single diagram. Modeling is performed entirely in UML (Unified Modeling Language) using two diagrams: a class diagram for the domain model and a component diagram for the navigation and the interface. Both diagrams are extended using stereotypes and tagged values. These extensions are used for adding information to the models allowing to configure them and making easier the code generation. This modeling technique allows having the required data to use the MDA (Model Driven Architecture) approach, which through automatic transformations generates the database and source code of the mobile web application.