Front 
1 
Interaction Flow 
4 
Copyright 5
Contents 6
Foreword 14
Chapter 
16 
1.1 WHAT IFML IS ABOUT 17
1.2 THE IFML DESIGN PRINCIPLES 18
1.3 HOW TO READ THIS BOOK 20
1.4 ON-LINE RESOURCES 21
1.5 BACKGROUND 22
1.6 ACKNOWLEDGMENT 23
END NOTES 23
Chapter 
24 
2.1 SCOPE AND PERSPECTIVES 24
2.2 OVERVIEW OF IFML MAIN CONCEPTS 26
2.3 ROLE OF IFML IN THE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS 30
2.4 A COMPLETE EXAMPLE 34
2.5 SUMMARY OF THE CHAPTER 38
2.6 BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTES 39
END NOTES 39
Chapter 
40 
3.1 CLASSES 41
3.2 ATTRIBUTES 41
3.3 IDENTIFICATION AND PRIMARY KEY 42
3.4 ATTRIBUTE TYPE AND VISIBILITY 44
3.5 OPERATIONS 45
3.6 GENERALIZATION HIERARCHIES 46
3.7 ASSOCIATIONS 47
3.8 N-ARY ASSOCIATIONS AND ASSOCIATIONS WITH ATTRIBUTES 49
3.9 DERIVED INFORMATION AND THE OBJECT CONSTRAINT LANGUAGE (OCL) 51
3.10 DOMAIN MODELING PATTERNS AND PRACTICES 53
3.11 THE PROCESS OF DOMAIN MODELING 54
3.12 RUNNING EXAMPLE 62
3.13 SUMMARY OF THE CHAPTER 64
3.14 BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTES 64
END NOTES 65
Chapter 4 - Modeling the composition of the user interface 66
4.1 INTERFACE ORGANIZATION 66
4.2 VIEW CONTAINER NESTING 68
4.3 VIEW CONTAINER NAVIGATION 70
4.4 VIEW CONTAINER RELEVANCE AND VISIBILITY 70
4.5 WINDOWS 72
4.6 CONTEXT AND VIEWPOINT 74
4.7 USER INTERACTION PATTERNS 77
4.8 INTERFACE ORGANIZATION PATTERNS AND PRACTICES 77
4.9 RUNNING EXAMPLE 86
4.10 SUMMARY OF THE CHAPTER 91
4.11 BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTES 91
Chapter 
92 
5.1 WHAT VIEWCONTAINERS CONTAIN: VIEWCOMPONENTS 93
5.2 EVENTS AND NAVIGATION FLOWS WITH VIEWCOMPONENTS 94
5.3 CONTENT DEPENDENCIES: DATA BINDING 96
5.4 INPUT-OUTPUT DEPENDENCIES: PARAMETER BINDING 98
5.5 EXTENDING IFML WITH SPECIALIZED VIEWCOMPONENTS AND EVENTS 100
5.6 CONTENT AND NAVIGATION PATTERNS AND PRACTICES 106
5.7 DATA ENTRY PATTERNS 108
5.8 SEARCH PATTERNS 114
5.9 RUNNING EXAMPLE 118
5.10 SUMMARY OF THE CHAPTER 128
5.11 BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTES 128
END NOTES 129
Chapter 6 - Modeling business actions 130
6.1 ACTIONS 131
6.2 NOTIFICATION 134
6.3 BUSINESS ACTION PATTERNS 134
6.4 RUNNING EXAMPLE 146
6.5 SUMMARY OF THE CHAPTER 151
6.6 BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTES 151
Chapter 7 - IFML extensions 152
7.1 DESKTOP EXTENSIONS 153
7.2 WEB EXTENSIONS 160
7.3 MOBILE EXTENSIONS 167
7.4 MULTISCREEN EXTENSIONS 176
7.5 SUMMARY OF THE CHAPTER 179
7.6 BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTES 179
Chapter 8 - Modeling patterns 182
8.1 INTERFACE ORGANIZATION 182
8.2 NAVIGATION AND ORIENTATION 188
8.3 CONTENT PUBLISHING, SCROLLING, AND PREVIEWING 205
8.4 DATA ENTRY 212
8.5 SEARCH 219
8.6 CONTENT MANAGEMENT 220
8.7 PERSONALIZATION, IDENTIFICATION, AND AUTHORIZATION 223
8.8 SESSION DATA 235
8.9 SOCIAL FUNCTIONS 240
8.10 GEO PATTERNS 243
8.11 SUMMARY OF THE CHAPTER 245
8.12 BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTES 245
Chapter 
248 
9.1 MEDIA SHARING APP 248
9.2 ONLINE AUCTIONS 267
9.3 SUMMARY OF THE CHAPTER 291
END NOTES 292
Chapter 
294 
10.1 IMPLEMENTATION OF THE FRONT END FOR URE-HTML PAGE TEMPLATES 297
10.2 IMPLEMENTATION OF THE FRONT END FOR PRESENTATION FRAMEWORKS 316
10.3 IMPLEMENTATION OF THE FRONT END FOR RICH INTERNET APPLICATIONS 331
10.4 IMPLEMENTATION OF THE FRONT END FOR MOBILE APPLICATIONS 336
10.5 SUMMARY OF THE CHAPTER 348
10.6 BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTES 348
END NOTES 349
Chapter 
350 
11.1 INTRODUCTION TO WEBRATIO 350
11.2 DOMAIN MODEL DESIGN 352
11.3 IFML FRONT-END DESIGN 353
11.4 DATA MAPPING AND ALIGNMENT 356
11.5 ACTION DESIGN 357
11.6 PRESENTATION DESIGN 359
11.7 CODE GENERATION 361
11.8 ADVANCED FEATURES 365
11.9 SUMMARY OF THE CHAPTER 370
11.10 BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTES 372
END NOTES 373
Chapter 12 - IFML language design, execution, and integration 374
12.1 IFML LANGUAGE SPECIFICATION THROUGH METAMODELING 374
12.2 IFML MODEL EXECUTION 377
12.3 IFML MODELS INTEGRATION WITH OTHER SYSTEM MODELING PERSPECTIVES 390
12.4 SUMMARY OF THE CHAPTER 395
12.5 BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTES 395
Appendix A - IFML notation summary 396
Appendix B: - List of IFML design patterns 404
References 410
Index 416