Filling the Gap: New Models for Systematic Page-based Web Application Development & Maintenance

The current state of application development on the WWW is characterised by anarchy and ad hoc methodologies. In recent years, various hypermedia methodologies have been proposed to facilitate the deployment of Web applications. However, no standard methodology has emerged to cater the needs for a systematic and methodological approach to complex and dynamic Web application development. This paper presents the design and specification of a multi-paradigm model suited for representing the interaction in a client-server environment of procedural, declarative, object-based, event-oriented and OO components, suited especially for page-based Web applications. Keywords: Page-based Web Application Development, Multi-paradigm Models, Implementation Models, Client-server Interaction, Web Software Engineering 1. Introduction The current state of application development on the WWW is characterised by anarchy and ad hoc methodologies. Despite the increasing popularity of Web-based application pr..