Visual Programming for Web Applications that Use HTML Frame Facilities

摘要

This paper presents a method that makes it possible to visually design and program Web applications that use frame facilities. The BioPro system that implements this method newly provides Frameset design pages with which we can design Web pages that represent a frameset consisting of several frames and other framesets. We design the contents of ordinary Web pages using Web design pages. Each frame of a Frameset design page has a link to the Web page that is displayed in the frame. The system generates Web application program code from these Frameset design pages and the Web design pages linked to them. Frameset design pages provide several editing facilities such as adding, deleting, changing, and nesting of framesets to make it easier to develop Web applications that use frame facilities.