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Webformer: A Rapid Application Development Toolkit for Writing Ajax Web Form Applications

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Distributed Computing and Internet Technology (ICDCIT 2007)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNISA,volume 4882))

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Abstract

Web forms are commonly used to capture data on the web. With Asynchronous Javascript and XML (Ajax) programming, interactive web forms can be created. However, Ajax programming is complex in a way that the model-view-controller (MVC) code is not clearly separated. This paper discusses about a MVC-oriented web form development called “Webformer” that we develop to simplify and streamline web form development with Ajax. We introduce a scripting language called Web Form Application Language (WebFAL) for modeling web forms. Webformer hides the programming complexity by generating Ajax code directly from the web form models.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Hong Kong,  

    David W. L. Cheung, Thomas Y. T. Lee & Patrick K. C. Yee

  2. Center for E-Commerce Infrastructure Development, University of Hong Kong,  

    David W. L. Cheung, Thomas Y. T. Lee & Patrick K. C. Yee

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Cheung, D.W.L., Lee, T.Y.T., Yee, P.K.C. (2007). Webformer: A Rapid Application Development Toolkit for Writing Ajax Web Form Applications. In: Janowski, T., Mohanty, H. (eds) Distributed Computing and Internet Technology. ICDCIT 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4882. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-77115-9_25

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