Migrating Multi-page Web Applications to Single-page AJAX Interfaces

Report (2006)
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Software Technology (EEMCS) (TU Delft)
Copyright: © 2006 The Author(s) . Software Engineering Research Group, Department of Software Technology, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, Delft University of Technology
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31-12-2006

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Technical Report Series TUD-SERG-2006-018; 2nd revision

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Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science

Department

Software Technology

Abstract

Recently, a new web development technique for creating interactive web applications, dubbed AJAX, has emerged. In this new model, the single-page web interface is composed of individual components which can be updated/replaced independently. With the rise of AJAX web applications classical multi-page web applications are becoming legacy systems. If until a year ago, the concern revolved around migrating legacy systems to web-based settings, today we have a new challenge of migrating web applications to single-page AJAX applications. Gaining an understanding of the navigational model and user interface structure of the source application is the first step in the migration process. In this paper, we explore how reverse engineering techniques can help analyze classic web applications for this purpose. Our approach, using a schema-based clustering technique, extracts a navigational model of web applications, and identifies candidate user interface components to be migrated to a single-page AJAX interface. Additionally, results of a case study, conducted to evaluate our tool, are presented Preprint accepted for publication in Proceedings of the 11th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR'07), Amsterdam (The Netherlands) 21-23 March, 2007, IEEE Computer Society, 2007

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