Pragmatic Reuse in Web Application Development

Highly interactive web applications that offer user experi-ence and responsiveness of desktop applications are becom-ing increasingly popular. They are often composed out of visually distinctive user-interface (UI) elements that encap-sulate a certain behavior – the so called UI controls. Similar controls are often used in a large number of web pages, and facilitating their reuse would offer considerable benefits. Un-fortunately, because of a very short time-to-market, and a fast pace of technology development, preparing controls for reuse is usually not a primary concern. The focus of my re-search will be to circumvent this limitation by developing a method, and the accompanying tool for supporting web UI control reuse