Constructing and integrating data-centric Web applications: Methods, tools, and techniques

This chapter deals with the construction of data-centric web applications, focusing on the modeling of processes and on the integration with Web services. The chapter describes the standards, methods, and tools that are commonly used for building these applications. It addresses the development of Web applications, which do not use web services, and characterize four orthogonal design dimensions of such applications. This chapter identifies: the schemas of the application data on the server and their mapping to pre-existing data sources; the business logic of the application; the hypertexts for navigating within them, thus generating the Web interface on the client; and the styles of presentation being offered to the user on the client.