An Effective and User-Friendly IDE Tool to Facilitate Conceptual Design and Maintenance of Web Applications

Web applications are growing in demand, complexity and size, thus making it difficult to systematically design and maintain general web applications. To aid in fulfilling these difficult tasks, we present an effective IDE tool to allow the design of web applications at a conceptual level based on a web modeling approach ? the WebML with its modeling specifications written in the platform-independent XML. In addition, we proposed a library of templates for different components in our IDE tool to facilitate reuses and maintenance. Besides, we studied how structural design of web applications could possibly be improved with easy-to-use features in our IDE prototype. Clearly, this ongoing work opens up many exciting directions for future investigation. Keywords Web Design Methodologies, IDE Tool, Component-Based Approach, Markup Language.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2001
• Where: WWW
• Authors: Vincent Tam, C. S. Yeo
• Keywords: Effective Ide Tool, Ide Tool, Internet Technology, Web Applications, WWW 2001