A COMPARISON OF TWO APPROACHES FOR AUTOMATIC CONSTRUCTION OF WEB APPLICATIONS
Keywords:
Web applications, code generation, annotations, diagramsAbstract
To support development of consistent and secure Web applications, we have designed a number of Web application generators. These generators can be roughly classied into two types of approaches: an annotation approach and a diagram approach. In this paper, we try to make clear the roles of these generators, and compare the two approaches in terms of target applications, development processes and target users. While both approaches are suciently powerful and exible enough to eciently construct typical Web applications, the most appropriate generator should be chosen according to the characteristics of the application and the development process.
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