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ArgoUWE: A CASE Tool for Web Applications Alexander Knapp, Nora Koch, Flavia Moser and Gefei Zhang1 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany {knapp,kochn,moser,zhangg@informatik.uni-muenchen.de} Abstract. The UWE methodology provides a systematic approach for the development of Web applications. UWE is based on a conservative extension of the UML and comprises the separate modeling of the conceptual, navigational and presentational aspects of Web applications. We present the CASE tool ArgoUWE to support the design phase of the UWE development process. It is implemented as a plugin module of the open source ArgoUML modeling tool. ArgoUWE fully integrates the UWE metamodel and provides an XMI extension. The construction process of Web applications is supported by incorporating the semi-automatic UWE development steps as well as the OCL well-formedness rules of the UWE metamodel that allow the designer to check the consistency of the UWE models during editing. ArgoUWE is part of the OpenUWE tool environment for model-driven generation of Web applications. Keywords. CASE Tools for IS Design and Implementation, Web Design, Web Engineering, UML, OCL 1 Introduction The Web Engineering field is rich in design methods supporting the complex task of designing Web applications. From our point of view the usability requirements to such methods are the following: to be based on standards, to define a process for the systematic development of Web applications and to provide tool support for the model-driven design and generation of Web applications. The well-known standard used for modeling is the Unified Modeling Language [UML 2003]. Most of the existing Web engineering methods fulfill some of these