GENERATION OF WEB APPLICATIONS FROM ANNOTATION-BASED DEFINITIONS

摘要

Construction of Web applications usually requires much knowledge about protocols, programming languages and databases. We present a new method for generation of Web applications. We first construct HTML page templates for intended Web applications. Then we give annotations to these HTML page templates. Annotations are for session management, input data checking, database handling and communications with external programs. From HTML page templates with annotations, we automatically generate CGI-based Web applications. Our method is simple but general enough to describe typical Web applications such as guest book systems, room booking systems, shopping cart systems, glossary systems and user registration systems. Without using detailed knowledge of Web programming, anybody who understands HTML, constraint expressions, SQL, SOAP and XSLT can easily develop Web applications.