2003 Digital Symposium Collection

Architectural Issues and Solutions in the Development of Data-Intensive Web Applications

Stefano Ceri, Piero Fraternali, Aldo Bongio, Stefano Butti, Roberto Acerbis, Marco Tagliasacchi, Giovanni Toffetti, Carlo Conserva, Roberto Elli, Fulvio Ciapessoni, and Claudio Greppi
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Abstract

A data intensive Web application is a Web-enabled software system for the publication and management of large data collections, typically stored in one or more database management systems. Data-intensive Web applications constitute the most diffused class of applications found on the Web today, and their industrial relevance is an established fact. As a consequence, an intense technical and scientific debate is ongoing on the various aspects of their implementation, especially on the software architectures and design process best suited to cope with the peculiar aspects of a data-intensive Web application. The ideal software process should meet two possibly competing goals: 1) capturing the application requirements in a formal way, so to incorporate them in the development lifecycle and derive the software directly from the functional requirements; 2) delivering a software architecture that meets the non-functional requirements of performance, security, scalability, availability, and maintainability. Such process should also be amenable to automation, to let developers concentrate on functional requirements and optimization, and delegate the repetitive tasks to software tools. The goal of this paper is to report on an experience of applying a novel software development process to data-intensive Web applications, and to discuss the problems, design choices, and trade-offs that led to the conception of WebRatio, an innovative technology for Web application development.

BIBTEX

@inproceedings       {DBLP:conf/cidr/CeriFBBATTCECG03,
  author    = {Stefano Ceri and
                Piero Fraternali and
                Aldo Bongio and
                Stefano Butti and
                Roberto Acerbis and
                Marco Tagliasacchi and
                Giovanni Toffetti and
                Carlo Conserva and
                Roberto Elli and
                Fulvio Ciapessoni and
                Claudio Greppi},
   booktitle = {CIDR},
   title     = {Architectural Issues and Solutions in the Development of Data-Intensive Web Applications.},
   year      = {2003},
   url       = {db/conf/cidr/cidr2003.html#CeriFBBATTCECG03},
   ee        = {http://www-db.cs.wisc.edu/cidr/program/p25.pdf},
   bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}