Mastersthesis,
Generating content management systems using open source software
School of Information Science, Federal University of Minas Gerais, (Mai 2005)Portuguese.
Abstract
This dissertation deals with content management systems generation
using open source softwares. It asks if it is possible, based on
the main existing theoretical contributions and in the available
frameworks, to implement a process that allows reflecting a knowledge
domain, represented by models, in a content management system. It
is intended to analyze the main existing theoretical contributions
concerning the modeling and generation of information systems, to
establish the steps necessary for implementation of this approach
and to raise framework of content management system development.
It was made an experimental research using a software development
process as scope, composed of three entities: (a) the knowledge domain,
(b) a content management system and (p) the adopted process. As result,
a content management system was generated and a process made up of
five activities: (1) platform independent modeling, (2) platform
specific modeling, (3) source codes generation, (4) source codes
maintenance and (5) installation. This process uses 50% of the time
planed for of the system development, but it presents some restrictions.
I concludes that (1) the UML is a good candidate to a knowledge representation
language, (2) modeling using levels of abstraction is a crucial necessity
for the evolution of the area of information systems, (3) the used
framework presents advantages in prototyping or application in reduced
knowledge domains and (4) is possible to consider a framework that
facilitates the information systems building and its maintenance
