Building Web Applications with UML Jim Conallen
Publisher: Addison Wesley Longman

The cutting edge of Web-design has moved to Web applications. We then designed the service from both the perspective of the business component (the service itself) as well as from the perspective of the web application component that would host our service. Below are some of the favorite tools that I use when developing web applications: It's uncomfortable. I looked for some good pages for documenting or specifying AJAX applications using UML Sequence Diagrams: starting with IBM/Rational have quite a few good UML pages: UML's Sequence Diagram, UML Sequence diagrams with style as part of their Web Services Program Tips and Techniques series at developerworld. To get a full catch-up, read yesterday's post first, . Firework's interface is cleaner, I can easily dock its toolbars to the sides, it loads faster, exporting images is straight forward, and it's powerful enough to create the most elegant web graphics you need. UMLPad - A very lightweight CASE tool that I use for quickly planning out my web application in UML notations. We drew up some UML class diagrams for good measure, which we will revisit as we implement the service in this post. Ada Web Application is a framework to build web applications. I liked the UML workbook series. Sequence Diagrams in particular. AWA is a model driven engineering framework that allows to design the application data model using UML and generate the corresponding Ada code. Now we're ready to build the web application part. A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability"Web sites are so nineties. They are mental pinball machines.