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http://dx.doi.org/10.6109/jkiice.2018.22.3.458

An Automatic Extraction Scheme of Dependency Relations between Web Components and Web Resources in Java Web Applications  

Oh, Jaewon (School of Computer Science and Information Engineering, The Catholic University of Korea)
Lee, Seunghyun (School of Computer Science and Information Engineering, The Catholic University of Korea)
Kim, Ah Hyoung (School of Computer Science and Information Engineering, The Catholic University of Korea)
Ahn, Woo Hyun (School of Software, Kwangwoon University)
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Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering / v.22, no.3, 2018 , pp. 458-470 More about this Journal
Abstract
As the requirements of web apps become complex and rapidly changing, the maintenance of web apps becomes more important. However, web apps have a problem that more often than not there is not enough documentation to understand and maintain them. Thus, their effective maintenance requires models that represent their internal behavior occurring when they dynamically generate web pages. Previous works identify web components (such as JSPs and Servlets) as participants in the behavior but not web resources (such as images, CSS files, and JavaScript files). Moreover, they do not identify dependency relations between web components and web resources. This paper dynamically analyzes Java web apps to extract such dependency relations, which are included in our graph model for page generation. Case studies using open-source web apps show the applicability of the proposed approach.
Keywords
Web Component Collaboration; Web Component; Web Resource; Dependency Relation; Web Engineering;
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