Maintaining Web Applications by Translating Among Different RIA Technologies

Abstract

As RIA (Rich Internet Application) technologies
have been widely used, the compatibility problem has arisen:
they are hardly compatible with each other. To solve the
problem, we have proposed and implemented an automatic RIA
transformation system named Web-IR, which uses an
XML-based intermediate representation with a Java-based
framework. As concrete examples, Web-IR currently supports
Ajax, Flex, JavaFX, and OpenLaszlo as its input/output. Our
evaluations show that Web-IR can transform existing real
applications into other RIA technologies keeping almost the
same appearances. Finally, we conclude that Web-IR can solve
the problem sufficiently.