Paolo Tonella and Filippo Ricca,
A Toolkit to Restructure Static Web Sites into
Dynamic Web Applications
Abstract
This chapter presents a Toolkit that has been designed to support a
restructuring process aiding the migration of static Web sites into dynamic
Web applications. In particular, this Toolkit replaces a set of static Web
pages having a similar structure with a server script that generates
dynamic pages at run time. The dynamically generated pages are equivalent
to those in the purely static version of the Web site. This chapter
describes the main technical features of the toolkit and its main
functionalities. Moreover, the advantages of the tool-generated dynamic
version of the site are discussed together with the manual interventions
needed to produce it. A real-world case study describing how the toolkit
can be actually used in the migration from a static Web site to a dynamic
Web application is reported.