Lightweight Modeling of Dynamic Websites using UML

Development of small- or medium scale Web applications is usually performed by teams consisting of graphic designers responsible for the layout and software developers realizing the business logic. Due to short production cycles, these people have to work in parallel on the implementation. Because of the different backgrounds of the people involved and the relative simplicity of the application, a simple design process and modeling approach is required which supports communication between team members and helps to identify and relate their respective tasks. We propose a simple subset of the UML adapted to the problem domain by means of stereotypes. Based on the design, we propose a strategy for generating code templates specifically tailored to the tasks of each team member, so that the implementation can immediately start in parallel when the modeling is complete.