A Novel Approach for Developing Web-Based Enterprise Information Systems

Crosscutting concerns and clone codes make the Web-based enterprise information system (EIS) difficult to evolve and maintain. The traditional model-view-controller (MVC) model imposes design-level restrictions that give a clean separation between the presentation, functional and control concerns. However it does not modularize the structure crosscutting concerns. In this paper, we propose a novel development model named meta data object (MDO) that modularizes the structure concerns and reduces some specific clone codes. Panther framework is a new domain-driven Web development framework that implements the MDO model. Panther has been used to develop many Web-based EIS. Development with Panther benefits from a significant improvement in code reuse, adaptability, and maintainability.