Novel Web Application Development Platform Using Declarative Programming and Business Process

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a novel web application development platform using the declarative programming and business process. In the proposed platform, we define the program flow by the business process, which can organize a program process efficiently and flexibly. Since the design of the user interface (UI) is independent of the business process, the developers can design the UI without considering the business process. Furthermore, a novel declarative programming language is proposed to describe the interactions among the components in the web pages as well as define the communication between the web pages and business process, leading to a simple, efficient, and flexible platform for the web application development. The implementation of the real web application example demonstrates the practical applicability and efficacy of the proposed platform.