Building Web Applications with UML Second Edition

Designing Web Applications

In Web application design, most of the activities are the same as for any client/server system: partitioning the objects into the system's tiers and developing the necessary infrastructure and helper classes to add to the analysis model. In Web-centric systems, Web pages are first-class objects, and the WAE gives us a notation for including them in our design models.

Proper partitioning of the business objects in a Web application is critical and depends on the architecture. Objects may reside exclusively on the server, the client, or both. In a sophisticated Web application, input field validation objects and specialized user interface widgets will likely run on the client, whereas container objects, such as a customer ...