DOI: 10.5176/2251-2217_SEA34
Authors: Tomokazu Hayakawa, Shinya Hasegawa, Shota Yoshika and Teruo Hikita
Abstract:
By the wide spread of the Internet, Rich Internet Application (RIA) technologies are commonly used. Since there are a large number of RIA technologies and they have few compatibilities to each other, a time- and cost-consuming problem has arisen when a RIA technology used for existing applications becomes obsolete – one has to redevelop the applications from scratch by using other RIA technologies. Similar problems caused by obsoleteness occur in the smaller scale within an application as per page basis, and also when version up of the technology is made. To solve these problems, we have proposed and constructed an automatic RIA transformation system named Web-IR, in which an XML-based intermediate representation and a Java-based framework are presented. As concrete examples, HTML, Flex, JavaFX and OpenLaszlo are currently supported. Our evaluations show that Web-IR can transform existing real applications into various formats keeping almost same appearances. Finally, we conclude that Web-IR can solve the problems almost completely, especially for UI (User Interface) transformations.
Keywords: component; Web Application; RIA; HTML; CSS; Flex; JavaFX; OpenLaszlo; Transformation; Translation; Framework; XML; Java
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