Developing Content-Intensive Applications with XML Documents, Document Transformations and Software Components

Sierra, José-Luis; Fernández‐Valmayor, Alfredo; Fernández‐Manjón, Baltasar; Navarro, Antonio

doi:10.1109/euromicro.2005.21

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“…There are two kinds of game components: core rules, which roughly correspond to the small-step rules of the <e-Game> operational semantics, and GUI components, which implement interaction and presentation services for supporting the final presentation layer of the videogame. These components follow a common component model, which is an evolution of the model described in [37].…”

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A documental approach to adventure game development

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Sierra

Martínez‐Ortiz³

et al. 2007

Science of Computer Programming

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In this paper, we propose a documental approach to the development of graphical adventure videogames. This approach is oriented to the production and maintenance of adventure videogames using the game's storyboard as the key development element. The videogame storyboard is marked up with a suitable domain-specific descriptive markup language, from which the different art assets that are needed are referred to, and then the final executable videogame itself is automatically produced by processing the marked storyboard with a suitable processor for such a language. This document-oriented approach opens new authoring possibilities in videogame development and allows a rational collaboration between the different communities that participate in the development process: game writers, artists, and programmers. We have implemented the approach in the context of the project, by defining a suitable markup language for the storyboards (the language), and by building a suitable processor for this language (the engine).

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A documental approach to adventure game development

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Sierra

Martínez‐Ortiz³

et al. 2007

Science of Computer Programming

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“…ADDS has been formulated and refined for several years [25] [43]. In [39][40] the approach was called DTC: structured Documents, document Transformations and software Components (see also [44] for an updated revision of DTC). It is important to notice that ADDS is not a development environment, but it is better thought of as a process model in the sense used in Software Engineering [45] (see [1] for the role of ADDS as a process model in the context of software comprehension).…”

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“…In this way, OADDS is comparable to a transformation language like XSLT, which specifies the transformation mechanism, but does not specify the nature of the target document types. In our opinion this is not a disadvantage but a feature, because it allows many application models to be accommodated although we have not explicitly defined any of these models, outside of our earlier works on component-oriented DTC applications [44]. Therefore, in our experiments we have adopted ad hoc mechanisms to manage the evolution of the generated applications when the processor generating them evolves.…”

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A Document-Oriented Paradigm for the Construction of Content-Intensive Applications

Sierra¹,

Fernández‐Valmayor

Fernández‐Manjón

2006

The Computer Journal

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In this paper we describe our work on the formulation of a document-oriented paradigm for improving the construction and maintenance of content-intensive applications (i.e. applications that make intensive use of the information provided by the experts in a given domain: the contents). According to this paradigm, the development of a content-intensive application must be the result of close collaboration between two kinds of actors: domain experts and developers. The goal of this collaboration is the authoring of (i) a set of documents describing the most relevant aspects of the application (i.e. the contents and other relevant customizable features); (ii) a grammar describing a domain-specific markup language that will be used to make the structure and the data in these documents explicit; and (iii) a suitable processor for this language. The final running application will be automatically produced by processing the marked documents with this processor. The use of this paradigm in the development of content-intensive applications can increase the initial cost of application production, but in the long run it can substantially improve maintenance and portability, and promote information and software reuse as well. We have successfully applied this paradigm to the development of educational and hypermedia applications, and knowledge-based systems. From these experiences, we have found that the feasibility of the paradigm depends to a great extent on having mechanisms that enable the incremental definition of the markup languages and the incremental construction of their processors. This has led us to the formulation of a documentoriented approach for the development of content-intensive applications tightly coupled with these principles of incremental formulation and operationalization of domain-specific markup languages.

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