A visual approach for generating server page type weh applications based on template method

A number of Web application generators have been proposed for automating management of the consistency and the security of Web applications. These approaches, however, concentrate on server program type Web applications and it is difficult to apply them to server page type Web applications. In this paper, extending the model for server program type Web applications, we propose Web transition diagrams to represent the overall behavior of server page type Web applications. Then we present a Web application generator which generates server page type Web applications from our Web transition diagrams based on template method. We implement a generator called T-Web system for server page type Web applications which enables us to generate typical server page type Web applications by visual operations without procedural programming. Each generated Web page document has program codes for session management, input/output checks and user authentication.