Refactoring Traditional Forms into Ajax-enabled Forms

Abstract

Ajax is a set of web development technologies for developing Rich Internet Applications (RIA); it makes web pages more responsive and minimizes the impact of round-trip latency by only updating portions of the web page. Forms are common in web applications. However, in traditional web applications, the entire page is refreshed each time the form is submitted. This method is inefficient, hence, Ajax-enabled forms should replace these traditional forms. In this paper, we describe a refactoring system called Form Transformation Tool (FTT) to provide support for web programmers by transforming traditional forms into Ajax forms, while guaranteeing that the functionality before and after refactoring is preserved.