Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: > > These are two approaches that I find interesting to evaluate: > > * webml: http://webml.elet.polimi.it/webml/index.html > > ("Web Modeling Language (WebML) is a notation for specifying > complex Web sites at the conceptual level. > WebML enables the high-level description of a Web site > along multiple dimensions: > > * Its data content (structural model) > * The pages that compose it (composition model) > * The topology of links between pages (navigation model) > * The layout and graphic requirements for page rendering > (presentation model) > * The customization features for one-to-one content delivery > (personalization model))
>From the first lines of the manual: <quote> This document presents the models and languages for the design of WebML applications. WebML assumes a step-by-step approach to the specification of data-intensive Web sites, where each step addresses a distinct perspective of modelling. </quote> In short, the 'web' in WebML should be replaced with "data-intensive web". Also, after a brief look, I think the entire concept is very weak. Sure, they aim at total SoC, but they start from the wrong perspective: their framework is *focused* on data-driven web sites. Their focus is mostly in moving the 'entity-relationship' model to the web and provide a simple way to map the two. I honestly didn't see anything we can borrow from their effort since it's too specific for us. NOTE: from what I saw, it would be pretty straightforward to implement a WebML framework on top of Cocoon. > * Project Ace: http://research.sun.com/features/ace/ > > ("Object-oriented development and code reuse techniques > were supposed to increase the productivity of developers. > But today, programmers still face huge and > growing backlogs ... it's time for a better solution".) Sounds like big time vaporware to me: where is the meat? > As for semantical searches: > > * Conceptual Indexing: http://research.sun.com/knowledge/ what does this have to do with the title? Ok brainstorming, but let's try to keep at least focused. -- Stefano Mazzocchi One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Friedrich Nietzsche -------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
