Generation of a User Interface Prototype from an Integrated Scenario Specification

Colaso, Vikrant and Shah, Anuj and Lobo, Lester and Shastri, Priya (2002) Generation of a User Interface Prototype from an Integrated Scenario Specification. Technical Report TR-02-32, CS, Virginia Tech.

Abstract

This report discusses the design for the generation of a device independent user interface prototype for services offered by a digital library from an Integrated Scenario Specification using class diagrams and collaboration diagrams as input. The project was conceived as an extension to the SUIP tool, which generates a User interface in java. But this approach has an inherent problem. The interfaces thus generated have the java look and feel and this can't be changed if the user so desires. Our design overcomes this drawback by generating the interface in UIML which is device independent and thus it is possible to render the code in java, HTML, WML and other languages. The report aims at providing details about the intricacies of the design and deployment. In addition, it also lists possible enhancements to the code that could be taken up as future work.