JP2005122632A - Web application development support device and method for supporting development - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a Web application development support device and a method capable of improving the efficiency of business by supporting the generation of a business layer component on the basis of a display layer component described in a GUI part in application development utilizing the GUI. <P>SOLUTION: The application development support device 100 is provided with a GUI control analysis processing part 110 for identifying GUI control included in a Web form file 140, an event generating GUI control processing part 120 for specifying and listing an event on the basis of event generating GUI control and a displaying GUI control processing part 130 for setting displaying GUI control and the property information of the displaying GUI control in each listed event in accordance with user's specification and generating a code-behind file in which routine codes are described on the basis of respective set contents. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to a web application development support apparatus and method for supporting development of a web application using a GUI.

In recent years, applications using a client / server system and Web applications on the Internet or an intranet have become widespread, and shortening the development cycle is important in developing each application.
In particular, when a business system or business service is disclosed as an application, there is a strong demand from customers and users to develop it in a short period of time in connection with the disclosure of a new service, the expansion of the service, and the like.
From this point of view, as a conventional development support apparatus for the purpose of developing a Web application in a short period of time, a Web page description sentence that expresses a Web page based on an application description sentence using a GUI (Graphical User Interface) The structure which enabled the production | generation of this is known (for example, refer patent document 1).
JP 2003-006185 A

The application development support apparatus described in Patent Document 1 enables a shift to a Web application by generating a Web page description sentence for a GUI application created in advance.
On the other hand, in recent web application development, in order to reduce development work and the like, an environment for developing a web application system by dividing it into a display layer component and a business layer component is being developed. For example, ASP. In NET, a Web form file as a display layer component and a code-behind file as a business layer component can be defined as different files. In this case, in the development process, it is common to first define the display layer component, and then define the business layer component describing the business process and display process corresponding to the GUI portion included in the display layer component. .

However, the application development support apparatus described in Patent Document 1 performs a transition work from an application using a GUI to a Web application, and an application using the GUI needs to be created first. In the case of general Web application development, there is a problem that it cannot be used. Further, it generates a Web page description sentence that expresses a Web page, and does not provide support for description of a business processing code.
On the other hand, ASP. Even in an environment where the display layer component and the business layer component can be defined as separate files, such as NET, in order to describe the business processing code in the business layer component, the GUI portion described in the display layer component is visually checked. It has been necessary to check and identify a GUI type for each GUI part, specify an event based on the GUI type, and implement a display process corresponding to each event.
In this case, the determination of the GUI type and the identification of the event are routine tasks to some extent, but since knowledge about the GUI type and the like is required, a developer who is familiar with the application development language needs to perform the operation. Therefore, if the number of GUI parts included in the display layer component increases, the number of man-hours required for developers who are familiar with the application development language will become enormous, and it will not be possible to improve efficiency by sharing work. It was.

  The present invention is to solve the above-mentioned problems, and in application development using a GUI, the business layer component is supported based on the display layer component described in the GUI part, thereby improving the efficiency of the business. An object of the present invention is to provide a Web application development support apparatus and method that can be used.

In order to solve the above problems, the present invention provides a program code described in a program code description section in the business layer component or the display layer component in response to an event occurring on the GUI defined in the display layer component. A Web application development support apparatus that generates a program code description section in a business layer component or a display layer component based on GUI control described in the display layer component for a Web application that executes business processing and display processing. Extracting a GUI control from the display layer component, and reading a classification rule file in which classification rules for display GUI control and event generation GUI control based on GUI identification information are defined in advance; Based on the definition information of the classification rule file, it is classified into a display GUI control and an event generation GUI control according to the GUI identification information added in advance to the extracted GUI control, and stored in the respective information storage means. GUI control analysis processing means, and event generation GUI control processing for reading the event generation GUI control stored in the information storage means and identifying and listing events to be generated based on the type of each event generation GUI control And display property information defined in advance according to the type of each display GUI control, the display property information is associated with each display GUI control stored in the information storage means, and the event occurrence GUI control For each event listed by the processing means, an arbitrary display GUI control is set, and arbitrary display property information is set from the display property information associated with each display GUI. The program code description section in the generated business layer component or display layer component includes display GUI control processing means for describing a fixed code corresponding to each setting content.
The event generation GUI control processing means reads a classification rule file that defines classification rules for server event generation GUI control and client event generation GUI control based on GUI identification information in advance, and defines the classification rule file. Server client that classifies into GUI control for server event generation and GUI control for client event generation according to GUI identification information added in advance to the GUI control for event generation stored in the information storage means based on information Event classification processing means, and a client processing code that describes in the display layer component a standard code corresponding to the type of event generation GUI control classified as a client event generation GUI control. And further comprising a de describing means.
In addition, the Web application development support apparatus reads the event generation GUI control stored in the information storage unit and generates a control symbol generation format for identifying the screen control processing code of the Web application defined in the control symbol storage file Reads predefined control symbol generation format rules and additional symbol information defined in accordance with the type of event generation GUI control, and in accordance with the type of event generation GUI control read from the information storage unit. Then, based on the generation format rule and the additional symbol information, a control symbol corresponding to each event is generated, the control symbol storage file is generated, and a fixed code corresponding to the control symbol is generated in the control symbol storage file. Generate control symbol file to be written Characterized by further comprising a management unit.
The display GUI control processing means includes an identification symbol generation format rule in which a generation format of an identification symbol for identifying a business process corresponding to a display process in each event is defined in advance, and a second for describing the business process A standard code that reads a template file for a business layer component, generates an identification symbol corresponding to each setting content based on the identification symbol generation format rule, and obtains a result of the business process identified by the identification symbol And a means for generating the second business layer component in which a fixed code corresponding to each setting content and the identification symbol is described.
In addition, the application development support method of the present invention provides a program code described in the business code component or the program code description section in the display layer component in response to an event occurring on the GUI described in the display layer component. Web application development support method using a Web application development support apparatus that generates a business code component in the business layer component or the display layer component based on the display layer component A first step of extracting a GUI definition part from the display layer component, and a classification rule for a display GUI control and an event generation GUI control based on GUI identification information are defined in advance. In accordance with the GUI identification information added in advance to the extracted GUI definition part, the classification rule file is classified into a display GUI control and an event generation GUI control based on the definition information of the classification rule file. A second step of storing in each information storage means, a third step of identifying and listing events to be generated based on the type of event generation GUI control, and a type of each GUI control for display in advance. 4th step of reading the display property information defined in accordance with the display property information, and associating the display property information with each display GUI control stored in the information storage means, and any event listed In addition to setting the display GUI for each display, the corresponding display GUI A fifth step of setting arbitrary display property information from the displayed display property information, and a fixed code corresponding to each setting content in the business layer component or the program code description section in the display layer component And a sixth step of describing.
In addition, for the event generation GUI controls classified in the second step, a classification rule file that defines the classification rules for the server event generation GUI control and the client event generation GUI control based on the GUI identification information is read in advance. Based on the step and the GUI identification information added in advance to the event generation GUI control stored in the information storage means based on the definition information of the classification rule file, the server event generation GUI control and the client event generation A step of classifying into GUI controls, and a step of describing in the display layer component a standard code corresponding to the type of event control GUI control classified as a client event generation GUI control. Characterized in that it comprises the al.
Also, the step of reading the event generation GUI control from the information storage unit and the control symbol generation in which the control symbol generation format for identifying the screen control processing code of the Web application defined in the control symbol storage file is defined in advance A step of reading the format rule and the additional symbol information defined according to the type of the event generation GUI control, and the generation format according to the type of the event generation GUI control read from the information storage unit Generating a control symbol corresponding to each event based on the rule and the additional symbol information; generating the control symbol storage file; and describing a fixed code corresponding to the control symbol in the control symbol storage file; Is further provided.
Further, in the sixth step, an identification symbol generation format rule in which an identification symbol generation format for identifying a business process corresponding to a display process in each event is defined in advance, and a second business layer describing the business process A template that reads a template file for a component, and generates an identification symbol corresponding to each setting content based on the identification symbol generation format rule, and acquires a result of a business process identified by the identification symbol The method further includes a step of describing a code in a business layer component and a step of generating the second business layer component in which a fixed code corresponding to each setting content and the identification symbol is described.

With the above configuration, according to the present invention, the GUI control included in the Web form file is classified and the event is specified, and the business process code is based on the display process and property information set by the user for each event. The code-behind file that describes the fixed-form code related to the code is generated or the fixed-form code is described in the Web form file. It is possible to share the code description work. Therefore, not only can the work of the design / developer be greatly reduced, but even when it is difficult to secure the staff of mature developers, it is possible for the undeveloped developers to describe the code related to the display etc. Become.
In addition, since the client processing and server processing are classified and a means for writing a fixed code corresponding to the client processing is provided, even when the Web application to be developed includes processing on the client side, it is included in the Web form. It is possible to write an appropriate standard code.
In addition, since a means for generating a control symbol and a control symbol storage file is provided, it is possible to describe an appropriate fixed code even when an application control symbol for performing screen control or the like is used.
In addition, since a means for generating and describing a corresponding fixed code is provided for the second business layer component, a second business layer component that describes specific business processing corresponding to each event and display processing is generated. Even in this case, it is possible to describe an appropriate standard code.

In the present invention, the display layer component and the business layer component can be configured as separate files, or the Web application in which the business processing code is described in a separate area in the display layer component is targeted. As such a Web application, ASP. An example is an application using NET technology.
Hereinafter, as an embodiment of the present invention, ASP. An application development support apparatus for developing a Web application implemented using NET technology will be described with reference to the drawings.
FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a schematic configuration of an application development support apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.
The application development support apparatus 100 according to the present embodiment includes a GUI control analysis processing unit 110 and an event as each processing unit that generates a corresponding code-behind file based on a Web form file as a GUI-defined input file. A generation GUI control processing unit 120 and a display GUI control processing unit 130 are provided.
The GUI control analysis processing unit 110 extracts a GUI read processing unit 111 that accepts an input of a Web form file 140 as an input file in which a GUI is defined, a GUI control included in the Web form file 140, and a control separation rule file 150. And a GUI control extraction processing unit 112 which is classified into an event generation GUI control and a display GUI control and stored in the event generation GUI control information storage unit 160 and the display GUI control information storage unit 170, respectively. . The control classification rule file 150 defines information for identifying a display GUI control and an event generation GUI control for each GUI control.
The event generation GUI control processing unit 120 includes an event list processing unit 121 that lists events based on information extracted by the GUI control extraction unit 112 and stored in the event generation GUI control information storage unit 160. .
The display GUI control processing unit 130 includes a property information correspondence processing unit 131, an event correspondence processing unit 132, and a program code generation processing unit 133.
The property information correspondence processing unit 131 stores the display GUI extracted by the GUI control extraction processing unit 112 and stored in the display GUI control information storage unit 170 in advance in the property information storage unit 180 according to the control type. The associated property information is associated with each display GUI control.
The event response processing unit 132 sets display GUI controls and property information to be associated with each event in accordance with user designation.
The program code generation processing unit 133 describes a fixed code corresponding to each setting content in the event response processing unit 132 as generation of the code-behind file 190 or description of the program code in the Web form file.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing an outline of a Web application development support process performed by the application development support apparatus 100.
In the application development support apparatus 100, the GUI read processing unit 111 of the GUI control analysis processing unit 110 reads the Web form file 140 as an input file (step 201).
The GUI control extraction processing unit 112 analyzes the Web form file 140 read by the GUI reading processing unit 111 (step 202), and extracts the GUI control (step 203). The extracted GUI controls are classified into display GUI controls and event generation GUI controls based on the control classification rule file 150 (step 204), and stored in the information storage units 160 and 170 (step 205). In this case, it is assumed that a classification identification symbol is added to each GUI control in advance, and classification processing is performed based on the definition information in the control classification rule file 150 and each classification identification symbol. At this time, the ASP. A control type predetermined in the NET specification is stored in each of the information storage units 160 and 170.
The event list-up processing unit 121 of the event generation GUI control processing unit 120 acquires the GUI control information stored in the event generation GUI control information storage unit 160, and specifies and lists each event (step 206). ).
The property information correspondence processing unit 131 of the display GUI control processing unit 130 acquires the GUI control stored in the display GUI control information storage unit 170 and associates the property information acquired from the property information storage unit 180 (step 207). ). In this case, the property information is associated based on the control type of each GUI control.
The event handling processing unit 132 sets a display GUI control for each event listed by the event listing processing unit 121 in accordance with the user's designation (step 208), and for each display GUI control, A business process assignment property is set according to the designation (step 209).
The program code generation processing unit 133 generates a code-behind file 190 corresponding to each setting content or describes the program code in the web form file 140 (step 210). Here, the program code described by the program code generation processing unit 133 is only a standard code described in the business processing component according to each setting content, and the program code indicating specific business processing is to be described by the developer. It becomes.

About the above processing, ASP. A specific example will be described using a dictionary search application implemented using the NET technology.
FIG. 3 is a screen transition diagram of a dictionary search application as an example of a Web application to be developed, and FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a file structure of the dictionary search application shown in FIG.
The dictionary search application 300 shown in this example has a display screen 310 for inputting search conditions and displaying search results, and performs display processing corresponding to each event of login, search, and logout as events.
The display screen 310 includes “search.aspx” as a Web form file 401 indicating the display screen, and “search.aspx.cs” as a code-behind file 402 describing a program code for performing each process. The

FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating a general description example of the Web form file 401 constituting the dictionary search application 300.
In the Web form file 500, a CodeBehind attribute 501, an Inherits attribute 502, and Web server controls 503 to 507 are described.
The CodeBehind attribute 501 defines a code-behind file that describes business processing and display processing corresponding to the Web form file 500.
The inherits attribute 502 indicates the fully qualified class name of the code-behind file specified by the CodeBehind attribute 501.
A Web server control 503 is a GUI control indicating a TextBox for inputting a search term. “TextBox” serves as a display GUI control in the case of a specification that continues to display a dictionary search word even after displaying a search result.
A Web server control 504 is a GUI control indicating a DropDownList for selecting a search condition. “DropDownList” is a display GUI control in order to display a search option as a result of business processing being performed when a page is loaded.
A Web server control 505 indicates a GUI control that executes search processing. “Button 1” is an event generation GUI control for executing a search after inputting a search word and selecting a search option.
The Web server control 506 is a GUI control that indicates a DateList that displays search results. “DateList” is a display GUI control for displaying a search result.
A Web server control 507 indicates a GUI control for executing logout. Since “Button 2” is a logout button for ending the dictionary search Web application, it is a GUI control for event generation.

FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating a description example of a Web form file created by an application developer based on the Web form file 500 illustrated in FIG. 5 as an input file of the application development support apparatus 100.
Prefixes 601 to 605 “event” and “disp” are added in advance to the Web form file 600 as descriptions for identifying the event generation GUI control and the display GUI control.

FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating an example in which event generation GUI controls extracted from the Web form file 600 are stored as an example of the data structure of the event generation GUI control information storage unit 160.
The event generation GUI control information storage unit 160 includes data items of control type 701, ID information 702, and text information 703 as event generation GUI control information 700.
The control type 701 includes an ASP. For the GUI control extracted from the Web form file. Information predetermined by the NET specification is stored.
ID information 702 indicates a GUI control ID extracted from the Web form file.
Text information 703 indicates information set in the GUI control extracted from the Web form file.

FIG. 8 is a diagram illustrating an example in which the display GUI control extracted from the Web form file 600 is stored as an example of the data structure of the display GUI control information storage unit 170. The display GUI control information 800 includes data items of control type 801, ID information 802, and text information 803 in substantially the same manner as the event generation GUI control information 700 shown in FIG.
The information storage units 160 and 170 may store other property information.

FIG. 9 shows an example of display GUI control setting information in which the event handling processing unit 132 sets the display GUI control for each event according to the user's designation.
The display GUI control setting information 900 includes an event type 901, a GUI control ID 902, and a control type 903.
The event type 901 is based on event information about the events listed by the event list processing unit 121.
“Page load” included in the event type 901 is ASP. In NET, it is an event that always occurs regardless of GUI control. Therefore, the event type 901 includes “page load” and listed events.
The GUI control ID 902 and the control type 903 indicate information about the display GUI control associated with each event by the user.

FIG. 10 shows an example of property setting information in which a property is set for the display GUI control associated with each event by the event handling processing unit 132 in accordance with the user's designation.
The property setting information 1000 includes an event type 1001, GUI control ID 1002 corresponding to the event correspondence information 900, and property information 1003 designated by the user.
Property information 1003 indicates information specified by the user from among the property information extracted by the property information correspondence processing unit 131 from the property information storage unit 180 and associated with each display GUI control.

FIG. 11 is a diagram illustrating an example of a code-behind file generated by the application development support apparatus 100 according to the present embodiment.
The code-behind file 1100 includes ASP. In addition to the standard description of the code-behind file used in the NET, the standard code sections 1101 to 1105 are described based on the display GUI control setting information 900 and the property setting information 1000.
The fixed code sections 1102 and 1104 have a business process description section that allows a developer to describe values and class settings related to business processes.
On the other hand, each developer need only describe specific business process codes in the business process description sections of the standard code sections 1102 and 1104 included in the code-behind file 1100.

Also, ASP. In NET, a code corresponding to a program code described in a code-behind file can be described in a Web form file. Accordingly, the application development support apparatus 100 may add a corresponding fixed code part in the Web form file.
FIG. 12 is a diagram illustrating an example of a Web form file in which a fixed code part is described by the application development support apparatus 100.
The web form file 1200 includes fixed code portions 1201 to 1204 corresponding to the fixed code portions 1102 to 1105 described in the code behind file 1100.

As described above, in the application development support apparatus 100 according to the present embodiment, the GUI controls included in the Web form file are classified and events are specified, and each event is set by the user. Based on the display processing and property information, the code-behind file describing the standard code related to the business process code is generated or the standard code is described in the Web form file. It is possible to share code generation work and specific business processing code description work.
Therefore, developers who are familiar with the application development language can be concentrated on the specific work processing code description work, and efficient application development is possible.

FIG. 13 is a block diagram illustrating a main part of the application development support apparatus according to the second embodiment. When an application to be developed includes processing on the client side, an event indicating processing on the client side and an event indicating processing on the server side are classified. Of the classified events, the server-side processing is performed by the display GUI control processing unit 130 as described above, and the client-side processing is described in a standard code in the Web form file.
In the present embodiment, the event generation GUI control processing unit 1300 provided in the application development support apparatus includes an event division processing unit 1302 in addition to the event identification / list-up processing unit 1301.
The event classification processing unit 1302 classifies the event generation GUI control indicating server processing and the event generation GUI control indicating client processing based on the definition information of the control classification rule file 1310. The event generation GUI control indicating the server process is stored in the server process event information storage unit 1320. For the event generation GUI control indicating client processing, a standard code corresponding to the client processing event information is described in the Web form file 1330. In this case, it is assumed that identification information for identifying server processing or client processing is added to each event generation GUI control in advance.
For the event information stored in the server process event information storage unit 1320, a code-behind file is generated by the display GUI control processing unit 130, as in the first embodiment.
As for the client process event information, the display GUI control processing unit 130 may be provided with means for generating a fixed code. As a result, even when the client process and the server process are related, it is possible to generate and describe an appropriate standard code.

FIG. 14 is a flowchart illustrating a client processing code generation processing procedure performed by the event generation GUI control processing unit 1300.
The event classification processing unit reads the event generation GUI control (step 1401), reads the control classification rule file 1310 including the classification definition information of the client / server processing (step 1402), and based on the definition information of the control classification rule file 1310. The GUI control is classified into server processing and client processing according to the identification information (step 1403).
The classified server processing GUI control is stored in the server processing event information storage unit 1320 (step 1404), and a corresponding standard code is generated and described in the Web form for the client processing GUI control (step 1405). .

FIG. 15 is a diagram illustrating an example in which a standard code part describing a program code is written in the Web form file shown in FIG. 12 for the event processing of event button 1 as the business processing on the client side.
As shown in FIG. 15, in the Web form file 1500, in addition to the fixed code part shown in FIG. 12, fixed code parts 1501 and 1502 related to client-side business processing are described.
When a code-behind file is generated separately from the Web form file, the fixed code part corresponding to the fixed code part 1501 is described in the code-behind file, and the fixed code part corresponding to the fixed code part 1502 is written to the Web form file. Describe in.

  As described above, in the application development support apparatus according to the present embodiment, even when the Web application to be developed includes processing on the client side, it is possible to describe an appropriate standard code in the Web form. It becomes.

In each of the above-described embodiments, an example in which a Web application is configured by a Web form file and a code-behind file is shown. However, the present invention is not limited to this. For example, a screen control process performed after executing a business process is described. The control symbol storage file may be generated as a separate file.
FIG. 16 is a block diagram showing the main part of the application development support apparatus according to the third embodiment, and an example provided with means for generating an application control symbol storage file describing screen control processing as post-processing. Show.
In the present embodiment, an attribute extraction processing unit 1601 and a control symbol generation processing unit 1602 are provided as the application control symbol processing unit 1600 of the application development support apparatus.
The attribute extraction processing unit 1601 extracts a character string such as a control type and a control attribute from which a control symbol is generated with respect to the event generation GUI control from the event generation GUI control information storage unit.
Based on the information extracted by the attribute extraction processing unit 1601, the control symbol generation processing unit generates a control symbol and a control symbol storage file 1620 according to the definition contents of the generation format rule file 1610, and describes them in the code-behind file. A code-behind file code 1630 as a standard code to be generated is generated. The control symbol generated here is a symbol for identifying a business process code indicating screen control processing to be performed as post-processing in each event generated in the Web application.
Note that the display GUI control processing unit 130 may be provided with means for generating a corresponding fixed code for the generated control symbol.

FIG. 17 is a flowchart showing a control symbol generation processing procedure by the control symbol generation processing unit 1500.
The event generation GUI control information is read from the event generation GUI control information storage unit 160 (step 1701), and the control type and control attribute character strings included in the event generation GUI control information are extracted (step 1702).
Next, the generation format rule file 1610 for the control symbol is read (step 1703), and the control symbol is generated based on the character string extracted in step 1702 and the definition information of the generation format rule file 1610 (step 1704).
For the generated control symbols, a control symbol storage file 1620 for describing a business process code indicating screen control processing is generated, and a fixed code described in the code-behind file is generated (step 1705).
After this, processing by the display GUI control processing unit 130 is performed.

FIG. 18 is a diagram illustrating an example of application control symbols generated by the control symbol generation processing unit based on the generation format rule file and additional character string information illustrated in FIG.
As shown in FIG. 18, in the present embodiment, application control symbols are generated corresponding to each event. In this case, as an application control symbol, an additional character string (for example, “LOAD”, “SEARCH”) corresponding to each event with respect to the screen identification symbol (“G0001” in this example) defined in the generation format rule file. , “LOGOUT”, etc.).

FIG. 19 is a diagram illustrating an example of an application control symbol storage file generated by the control symbol generation processing unit.
In the control symbol storage file 1900, an association code part 1901 for describing a business process code indicating screen control processing is described corresponding to each control symbol generated by the control symbol generation processing part.
In this example, a business process code (““ 10 ”/”, ““ 20 ”to =“ G0001 ”/”, ““ 0 ”to =“ SCREENOUT ”/”) ”indicating screen control processing is provided by the developer. Indicates the state described by.

  As described above, the application development support apparatus according to the present embodiment includes means for generating a control symbol and a control symbol storage file, so even if an application control symbol for performing screen control or the like is used, It is possible to write an appropriate standard code.

FIG. 20 is a diagram illustrating a main part of an application development support apparatus according to the fourth embodiment.
In addition to the code-behind file, the application development support apparatus according to the present embodiment includes means for describing a fixed code for a business process file that describes specific business process contents related to each event.
In the present embodiment, as shown in FIG. 20, the display GUI control processing unit 2000 has a property information correspondence processing unit 2001, an event correspondence processing unit 2002, and a program generation processing unit 2003 as in the configuration shown in FIG. The program generation processing unit 2003 includes a business process file generation processing unit 2004.
The business process file generation processing unit 2004 reads the business process file generation template file 2010 and the mapping file 2020, generates a business logic identification key, and describes a code-behind file 2030 and a business process file describing a corresponding fixed code. 2040 is generated.
Here, the mapping file 2020 indicates a format file for determining the OUT object key for passing the business process performed in the business process file 2040 to the code-behind file 2030.

FIG. 21 is a flowchart showing a business process file generation processing procedure by the business process file generation processing unit 2004 according to this embodiment.
The business process file generation processing unit 2004 reads the template file 2010 and the mapping file 2020 for the business process file (steps 2101 and 2102).
A business logic identification key generated based on the definition information of each file 2010, 2020 is generated (step 2103), and a code-behind file 2030 describing a fixed code including the business logic identification key and a business according to each event and setting content A processing file 2040 is generated (step 2104).

FIG. 22 is a diagram showing an example of the code-behind file 2030 generated by the application development support apparatus according to the present embodiment, and FIG. 23 is an example of a Web form including the program code generated by the application development support apparatus. FIG.
As shown in FIGS. 22 and 23, the code-behind file 2200 or the Web form file 2300 includes a business logic identification key for identifying a business process described in the business process file and a business process result based on the business logic identification key. A fixed code part 2201 to 2203, 2301 to 2303 including a fixed code for acquisition is described.
In this example, the business logic identification key is indicated by “display GUI control (ID of control to be bound) _key”.
In this example, “work (“ control symbol ”);” is described as a fixed code corresponding to the control symbol described in the control symbol storage file of FIG.

FIG. 24 is a diagram showing an example of a business process file generated by the application development support apparatus according to this embodiment.
The business process file 2400 describes fixed code sections 2401 to 2403 for describing the business process identified by each business logic identification key.
In this example, in the business process file 2400, each business process result is stored in the OUT object using the business logic identification key described in the code-behind file 2300 as a key.
In this example, a fixed code corresponding to the control symbol described in the control symbol storage file of FIG. 18 is described.

  As described above, in this embodiment, even when a business process file that describes specific business processes corresponding to each event and display process is generated as a separate file, an appropriate standard code is described. It becomes possible.

The configuration of the application development support apparatus of the present invention is not limited to that shown in the above embodiment, and the configuration of each processing unit and the data in each information storage unit as long as similar processing can be performed. The structure and the like may be changed. Each processing unit and each information storage unit may be configured by a plurality of terminals.
In the present embodiment, ASP. Although an example of a Web application using the NET technology is shown, the present invention is not limited to this, and the present invention can be configured such that the display layer component and the business layer component can be configured as separate files. Any Web application in which the business processing code is described in another area is applicable.
In addition, the fixed codes that can be described by the Web application development support apparatus and the development support method of the present invention are not limited to those shown in the above-described embodiment, and various fixed codes according to the specifications of the Web application development technology. Can be described.

It is a block diagram which shows schematic structure of the application development assistance apparatus which concerns on one embodiment of this invention. It is a flowchart which shows the outline | summary of the program code production | generation process by an application development assistance apparatus. It is a screen transition diagram showing a Web application generated by the application development support apparatus. It is a figure which shows an example of the file structure which comprises the Web application shown in FIG. It is a figure which shows an example of the source code of the Web form file which comprises the Web application shown in FIG. It is a figure which shows an example of the source code of the Web form file used as an input file with the application development assistance apparatus which concerns on one embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows an example of the data structure of the GUI control information storage part for event generation. It is a figure which shows an example of the data structure of the GUI control information storage part for a display. It is a figure which shows the example which set the display GUI control with respect to each event. It is a figure which shows the example which set property information with respect to the display GUI control set to each event. It is a figure which shows an example of the code behind file produced | generated by the application development assistance apparatus which concerns on one embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows an example of the Web form file which described the fixed form code by the application development assistance apparatus which concerns on one embodiment of this invention. It is a block diagram which shows schematic structure of the application development assistance apparatus which concerns on other embodiment of this invention. It is a flowchart which shows the outline | summary of the client process program code generation process by an application development assistance apparatus. It is a figure which shows an example of the Web form file which described the fixed form code of the client process by the application development assistance apparatus which concerns on other embodiment of this invention. It is a block diagram which shows schematic structure of the application development assistance apparatus which concerns on other embodiment of this invention. It is a flowchart which shows the outline | summary of the process which produces | generates the control symbol and control symbol storage file by an application development assistance apparatus. It is a figure which shows an example of the control symbol produced | generated by the application development assistance apparatus which concerns on other embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows an example of the control symbol storage file produced | generated by the application development assistance apparatus which concerns on other embodiment of this invention. It is a block diagram which shows schematic structure of the application development assistance apparatus which concerns on other embodiment of this invention. It is a flowchart which shows the outline | summary of the business process file generation process by an application development assistance apparatus. It is a figure which shows an example of the code behind file produced | generated by the application development assistance apparatus which concerns on other embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows an example of the Web form file which described the fixed form code by the application development assistance apparatus which concerns on other embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows an example of the business process file produced | generated by the application development assistance apparatus which concerns on other embodiment of this invention.

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  100 application development support device, 110 GUI control analysis processing unit, 111 GUI read processing unit, 112 GUI control extraction processing unit, 120 event generation GUI control processing unit, 121 event listing processing unit, 130 display GUI control processing unit, 131 Property Information Corresponding Processing Unit, 132 Event Corresponding Processing Unit, 133 Program Code Generation Processing Unit, 140 Web Form File (Input File), 150 Control Classification Rule File, 160 Event Generation GUI Control Information Storage Unit, 170 Display GUI Control Information storage unit, 180 property information storage unit, 190 code-behind file, 1300 GUI control for event generation, 1302 Event division processing , 1310 Control classification rule file, 1320 Server processing event information storage unit, 1330 Web form file, 1600 Application control symbol processing unit, 1601 Attribute extraction processing unit, 1602 Control symbol generation processing unit, 1610 Generation format rule file, 1620 Control symbol storage File, 1630 code-behind file code, 2000 display GUI control processing unit, 2004 business process file generation processing unit, 2010 template file, 2020 mapping file, 2030 code-behind file, 2040 business process file.

Claims (8)

A Web application that executes business processing and display processing by a program code described in the business layer component or a program code description section in the display layer component in response to an event that occurs on the GUI defined in the display layer component A Web application development support device that generates a program code description section in the business layer component or display layer component based on GUI control described in the display layer component,
The GUI control is extracted from the display layer component, and the classification rule file in which the classification rules for the display GUI control and the event generation GUI control based on the GUI identification information are defined in advance is read. Based on the definition information of the classification rule file According to GUI identification information added in advance to the extracted GUI control, the GUI control analysis processing means for classifying the GUI control for display and the GUI control for event generation into each information storage means;
Event generation GUI control processing means for reading the event generation GUI control stored in the information storage means and identifying and listing events to be generated based on the type of each event generation GUI control;
The display property information defined in advance according to the type of each display GUI control is read, the display property information is associated with each display GUI control stored in the information storage means,
For each event listed by the event generation GUI control processing means, an arbitrary display GUI control is set, and any display property information associated with each display GUI is displayed. Set property information for
A Web application development support apparatus comprising: a display GUI control processing means for writing a fixed code corresponding to each setting content in a program code description section in the generated business layer component or display layer component . The event generation GUI control processing means includes:
A classification rule file that defines classification rules for server event generation GUI control and client event generation GUI control based on GUI identification information is read in advance, and stored in the information storage means based on the definition information of the classification rule file. Server / client event classification processing means for classifying the server event generation GUI control and the client event generation GUI control according to the GUI identification information added in advance to the event generation GUI control;
The client processing code description means according to claim 1, further comprising client processing code description means for describing a fixed code corresponding to a type of the event generation GUI control classified as a client event generation GUI control in the display layer component. Web application development support device. The web application development support device
A control symbol generation format rule in which the event generation GUI control stored in the information storage unit is read and the control symbol generation format for identifying the screen control processing code of the Web application defined in the control symbol storage file is defined in advance And additional symbol information defined according to the type of GUI control for event generation,
In accordance with the type of event generation GUI control read from the information storage unit, based on the generation format rule and the additional symbol information, to generate a control symbol corresponding to each event,
3. The control symbol storage file generation processing means for generating the control symbol storage file and describing a fixed code corresponding to the control symbol in the control symbol storage file is further provided. The Web application development support apparatus described. The display GUI control processing means includes:
An identification symbol generation format rule in which a generation format of an identification symbol for identifying a business process corresponding to a display process in each event is defined in advance, and a template file for a second business layer component describing the business process;
Based on the identification symbol generation format rule, an identification symbol corresponding to each setting content is generated, and a standard code for obtaining a result of the business process identified by the identification symbol is described in the business layer component.
The Web application development support according to any one of claims 1 to 3, further comprising means for generating the second business layer component in which a fixed code corresponding to each setting content and the identification symbol is described. apparatus. A Web application that executes business processing and display processing by a program code described in the business layer component or a program code description section in the display layer component in response to an event that occurs on the GUI described in the display layer component A web application development support method using a web application development support device that generates a program code description part in the business layer component or display layer component based on the display layer component,
A first step of extracting a GUI definition portion from the display layer component;
A classification rule file in which classification rules for display GUI control and event generation GUI control based on GUI identification information are defined in advance is read, and the extracted GUI definition portion is added in advance based on the definition information of the classification rule file. According to GUI identification information, a second step of classifying the GUI control for display and the GUI control for event generation into each information storage means,
A third step of identifying and listing events to be generated based on the type of GUI control for event generation;
A fourth step of reading display property information defined in advance according to the type of each display GUI control and associating the display property information with each display GUI control stored in the information storage means;
A fifth display GUI control is set for each listed event, and any display property information is set from among the display property information associated with each display GUI control. And the steps
A Web application development support method comprising: a sixth step of writing a fixed code corresponding to each setting content in a program code description section in the business layer component or the display layer component. Regarding the event generation GUI control classified by the second step,
Reading a classification rule file that defines classification rules for server event generation GUI control and client event generation GUI control based on GUI identification information in advance;
In accordance with the GUI identification information added in advance to the event generation GUI control stored in the information storage means based on the definition information in the classification rule file, a server event generation GUI control and a client event generation GUI control are provided. A step of classifying
6. The Web application development support according to claim 5, further comprising a step of describing in the display layer component a fixed code corresponding to a type of the event generation GUI control classified as a client event generation GUI control. Method. Reading the event generation GUI control from the information storage unit;
Control symbol generation format rules that predefine the control symbol generation format for identifying the screen control processing code of the Web application defined in the control symbol storage file, and additions defined according to the type of GUI control for event generation A step of reading symbol information;
Generating a control symbol corresponding to each event based on the generation format rule and the additional symbol information according to the type of event generation GUI control read from the information storage unit;
The Web application development according to claim 5, further comprising: generating the control symbol storage file and describing a fixed code corresponding to the control symbol in the control symbol storage file. Support method. In the sixth step,
An identification symbol generation format rule in which a generation format of an identification symbol for identifying a business process corresponding to a display process in each event is defined in advance, and a template file for a second business layer component describing the business process are read. Steps,
Based on the identification symbol generation format rule, generating an identification symbol corresponding to each setting content, and describing in a business layer component a standard code for obtaining a result of business processing identified by the identification symbol;
The Web application development according to claim 5, further comprising a step of generating the second business layer component in which a fixed code corresponding to each setting content and the identification symbol is described. Support method.

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