Department of Business Management

National Sun Yat-sen University

Master Thesis

MDA.NET Framework

MDA: A Methodology of User Interface Transformation

for Microsoft .NET Framework Platform

Hui-Hsueh Lu

Dr. Jen-Her Wu, Dr. Huei-Mei Liang

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June 2011

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Abstract Graphic user interface has become the mainstream of todays web-based systems.

The object oriented technique and the diagrams from the Unified Modeling Language

(UML) are becoming the major tools for modeling the platform independent model

(PIM) of a web-based system. Once the PIM is constructed, the results can then be

transformed into its platform specific model and template code based on the model

driven architecture (MDA) approach. However, the detailed guideline for the

transformation from PIM to the Microsoft .Net platform is lacking. Therefore, this

study presents a methodology which provides guidelines for the transformation from

PIM to Microsoft .Net platform for a web-based system. The research methodology is

articulated using the design science research methodology. A usability evaluation with

a real-world web-based system case is performed to demonstrate its applicability. The

results indicated that with this proposed method, the system developer can effectively

transform the PIM of a web-based system into its Microsoft .Net platform and

template code.

Keywords: Model Driven Architecture, MDA Transformation, Web-based System,

Microsoft .Net Platform

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2-1 UML .............................................................................. 5

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2-8.NET ............................................................................. 16

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