Proceedings of The 26th EUROMICRO Conference (EUROMICRO'00)-Volume 2
Web Page Reuse Techniques: A Dynamic Referential Navigational Guide
Maastricht, The Netherlands
September 05-September 07
ISBN: 0-7695-0780-8
In the field of Software Engineering it is generally recognized that the reuse of existing components can lead to greater productivity and cost-effectiveness, together with a more reliable and easier to maintain software product of high quality. In short, software reusability is an essential attribute of a high, quality, and reliable software component. However, most Web pages are currently constructed for a particular system or Web site rather than being built with reuse in mind. Any reuse of these pages is based on ad hoc reuse rather than systematic reuse. This article presents a new approach for Web-page reuse called a Dynamic Referential Navigational Guide (DReNG). Based on the page-component instead of the predetermined link concept, a more structured design is proposed. Generic Web pages are built as reusable components and viewed as black boxes. A master page is used for each system developed, as a reference guide, to store the navigational links and the navigational mechanisms between these pages. It is based on a “triple linked list” structure, where “Back”, “Forward”, and “Homepage” pointers are maintained and potentially can be extended to unlimited pointers wherever an “n-tuple linked list” might be needed. Two further problems associated with the development of Web-based systems: the tracing and the maintenance of the same page across different systems or even across different servers have also been tackled.
Citation:
Eng Huat Ng, Stu Wade, Claude Ghaoui, "Web Page Reuse Techniques: A Dynamic Referential Navigational Guide," euromicro, vol. 2, pp.2072, Proceedings of The 26th EUROMICRO Conference (EUROMICRO'00)-Volume 2, 2000