A Coding-Free Software Framework for Developing Lightweight Web Data Management Systems

Abstract

More and more enterprises recently intend to deploy data management systems in the cloud. Due to the professionalism of software development, it has still been difficult for non-programmers to develop this kind of systems, even a small one. However, the development of SaaS brings forth the more feasibility of coding-free software development than before. Based on the SaaS architecture, this paper presents a set of theory and method for coding-free construction of a data management system, on which our contributions involve in a practical application platform, a set of construction method and a set of interface on data exchange. By abstracting the common features of data management systems, we design a universal web platform to quickly generate and publish customized system instances. Moreover, we propose a kind of method to develop a data management system using a specific requirements table in spreadsheet. The corresponding platform maps the requirements table into a system instance through parsing the table model and implementing the objective system in the running stage. Finally, we implement the proposed framework and deploy it on web. The empirical result demonstrates the feasibility and availability of the coding-free method in developing web data management systems.

GIP3: Make Privacy Preserving be Easier on Cloud

“…Based on above reasons, we developed the privacy preserving cloud platform based on SaaS, which enables users to use required privacy preserving services on the Web. This platform is based on the SaaS data management system platform, called GWDI (General Web Data Interface) [22], which meets the needs of users to customize data management systems and publish or manage data. In this paper, we focus on the design and implementation of the platform, which further provides privacy preserving service based on GWDI, and is called GIP3 mean ing General Web Data Interface -Privacy Preserving Protocol.…”