A page-transition framework for image-oriented Web programming

Abstract

To develop Web applications, various integrated development environments have been used. In addition, several frameworks for efficiently developing those applications have been proposed. This paper presents the image-oriented page-transition framework that models a Web application as a set of transitions of Web pages, and using visual components, makes it easier to write processes executed when a Web page transfers to another Web page. This page-transition framework has the following novel features: (1) The developers of Web applications do not need to write any processes for receiving and analyzing submitted form data. (2) The data submitted by page transfers are stored in the appropriate variables that are automatically generated. Using these automatically generated variables, the developers can write necessary actions for each Web page from which control transfers. (3) The developers can deal with tables used inside the programs as visual components, and can use these components to design dynamic Web pages.