A page-centric approach to Web application development

This paper proposes a page-centric approach for developing Web applications in which an application is modeled as a state machine of a UML that takes into account the state of a Web page. Application variables are divided into page-related variables and others. Business logics are also divided into presentation-related logics and others. In this paper, based on our model, a Web application development environment is also described. Using this environment, we can intuitively define the behavior of a Web application. Examples of applications developed by our method are given. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Electron Comm Jpn, 92(7): 47–56, 2009; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/ecj.10039