In March I wrote about a new project called DIME (Dynamic web application Integrated Modeling Environment), which enables to create full-fledged web applications via a family of GDSLs (Graphical Domain-Specific Languages), with an additional textual representation. It is the beginning of a development style, where technical experts and application experts (e.g., business experts) can work together on one artifact. The underlying idea of the approach is, that the different types of modeling languages (for data, control, and user interface) are interdependently connected and describe the application completely, so that they can be full code generated to a ready-to-use web application. Everything that cannot be captured adequately on the model level, can be integrated in a service-oriented fashion via so called native components.
At the end of that post I announced a DIME landing page, created with this very tool. Now a first version is online, which is responsive and shows already a few dynamic features, like internationalization (you can choose between english and german in the menu) and a comment form, where you can leave your first impressions. But please be kind, the Add Comment-process informs us about new comments and we can delete rude commments in the private area (all generated). The site is work in progress, we will update it with new features, more information, news on public events, and projects where DIME has been used. Further on, we will add a download section as soon as time has come for going public with DIME.
We already have some nice demo applications like a TODO-App as well as a “Reddit”-Clone, which will ship with the DIME installer. Just last week we held a DIME workshop on STRESS’16 co-located to ISoLA 2016 conference.
So please, take a look at the DIME landing page, leave a comment, and stay tuned for more to come.
Exciting, 😉.