Interaction Flow Modeling Language describes how to apply model‎-driven techniques to the problem of designing the front end of software applications‎,‎ i‎.‎e‎.‎‎,‎ the user interaction‎.‎ The book introduces the reader to the novel OMG standard Interaction Flow Modeling Language ‎(‎IFML‎)‎‎.‎ Authors Marco Brambilla and Piero Fraternali are authors of the IFML standard and wrote this book to explain the main concepts of the language‎.‎ They effectively illustrate how IFML can be applied in practice to the specification and implementation of complex web and mobile applications‎,‎ featuring rich interactive interfaces‎,‎ both browser based and native‎,‎ client side components and widgets‎,‎ and connections to data sources‎,‎ business logic components and services‎.‎ Interaction Flow Modeling Language provides you with unique insight into the benefits of engineering web and mobile applications with an agile model driven approach‎.‎ Concepts are explained through intuitive examples‎,‎ drawn from real‎-world applications‎.‎ The authors accompany you in the voyage from visual specifications of requirements to design and code production‎.‎ The book distills more than twenty years of practice and provides a mix of methodological principles and concrete and immediately applicable techniques‎.‎ * Learn OMG‎'‎s new IFML standard from the authors of the standard with this approachable reference* Introduces IFML concepts step‎-by‎-step‎,‎ with many practical examples and an end‎-to‎-end case example* Shows how to integrate IFML with other OMG standards including UML‎,‎ BPMN‎,‎ CWM‎,‎ SoaML and SysML* Discusses how to map models into code for a variety of web and mobile platforms and includes many useful interface modeling patterns and best practices