GUI generation based on language extensions: a model to generate GUI, based on source code with custom attributes

摘要

Due to data-driven application nature and its increasing complexity, developing its user interface can be arepetitive and time-consuming activity. Consequently, developers tend to focus more on the user interfaceaspects and less on business related code. In this paper, we’re presenting an alternative approach to graphicaluser interface development for data-driven applications, that allows developers to refocus on the source codeand concentrate their efforts on application core logic. The key concept behind our approach is the generationof concrete graphical user interface from a source code based model, which includes the original sourcecode metadata and non-intrusive declarative language extensions that describes the user interface structure.Concrete user interface implementation will be delegated to specialized software packages, developed byexternal entities, that provides complete graphical user interfaces services to the application. When applyingour approach, we’re expecting faster graphical user interface development.