Adaptation of the Unified Process to web applications development

A wide range of complex distributed applications is emerging in the web environment. The development of web applications is complex and consumes time. However, in most cases, the development approaches used for web applications has been ad hoc. Web engineering promotes the use of a systematic and disciplined approach to reduce complexity, time to market and costs of web applications development. Several researches demonstrate that the Unified Process is the most appropriate object oriented approach to develop web applications. Even thought, we argue with outcomes of these researches, but taking into consideration some adaptations of the Unified Process. These adaptations concern the User Interface development approach and the reusability. In fact, reuse is a standard technique to reduce complexity, costs and time to market with guarantee of the attribute's qualities. Reuse has a double face; development for reuse and development with reuse. In this paper, we present a process for web applications development based on reuse by:- The adoption of reuse strategy.- The integration of analysis domain method.- The reuse of software patterns, at different abstraction levels of a software development process