A model-view separation architecture for GUI application components

Author

Washizaki, Hironori ; Fukazawa, Yoshiaki

Author_Institution

Res. Center for Testbeds & Prototyping, Nat. Inst. of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan

Volume

2

fYear

2005

fDate

4-6 April 2005

Firstpage

359

Abstract

Graphical user interface (GUI) application component is a compound component, which consists of fine-grained components (such as GUI widgets) and specific logic. GUI application components fabricated by conventional techniques expose low extensibility because of the incomplete separation between the application logic part and GUI part inside the components. In this paper, we propose a new component architecture, "BeaM", which realizes complete separation between both parts inside the GUI application components. We have implemented a development environment corresponding to the proposed architecture in Java language. As a result of experimental evaluations, it is found that BeaM is useful to develop GUI application components as JavaBeans components with high extensibility.

Keywords

Java; application program interfaces; distributed object management; graphical user interfaces; object-oriented programming; program visualisation; programming environments; software architecture; BeaM component architecture; GUI application components; GUI widgets; Java language; JavaBeans components; application logic part; development environment; fine-grained components; graphical user interface; model-view separation architecture; Application software; Computer architecture; Graphical user interfaces; Informatics; Java; Logic design; Logic testing; Object oriented modeling; Prototypes; Unified modeling language;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Technology: Coding and Computing, 2005. ITCC 2005. International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2315-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ITCC.2005.17

Filename

1425170