CS297 ProposalTitle: A Model-Controller Interface for Struts-Based Web ApplicationsName : Deepti Bhardwaj Email : er.deeptibhardwaj@gmail.com Advisor: Dr. Chris Pollett Description: Struts provides a framework for servlet and JSP applications that uses Model-View-Controller (MVC) architecture where Model is business logic/business processes such as Java Beans, View is dialogs such as JavaServer Pages and Controller is central control unit such as Java Servlets [5]. There are many Integrated Development Environment (IDE) available in the market for example JDeveloper and Eclipse which provide the environment to develop Struts applications. However, these IDEs are desktop-based applications. In the proposed project, I will be developing a web-based application which will act as an IDE for interfacing and integrating the model and controller of a MVC architecture based applications. The proposed IDE will maximize the programmer productivity and will be available across the network. A web-based IDE will eliminate the inconvenience of installing or configuring the desktop-based IDEs. Developers will be able to map the user requests to an appropriate action which implements the model in the controller by just doing some clicks and drag-drop functionality provided by the web-based IDE. Schedule:
Deliverables: The full project will be done when CS298 is completed. The following will be done by the end of CS297: Deliverable 1 : Build a demo Struts application project. Deliverable 2 : Study the design architecture of the web-based IDE "Aurorasdk" [3]. Deliverable 3 : Develop a user interface to create Model components. Deliverable 4 : Develop a user interface to provide tools for linking Model and Controller files. Deliverable 5 : Report of semester's work. The report will have details of the prototype model being developed and functionalities the IDE will support. References: 1. [Dionysios G. Synodinos] Web-based IDEs to become mainstream. Retrieved from - http://www.infoq.com/news/2009/02/web-based-ide 2. [Heroku] Heroku Documentation. Retrieved from - http://docs.heroku.com/ 3. [Jingwen Ou] Aurorasdk. Retrieved from - http://code.google.com/p/aurorasdk/ 4. [Jacob T. Biehl] FASTDash: A Visual Dashboard for Fostering Awareness in Software Teams. Retrieved from - http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/64290/chi2007-fastdash.pdf 5. Struts. Retrieved from - http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/j-struts/ |