Andres Perez

US Patent:

7451393, Nov 11, 2008

Filed:

Dec 23, 2003

Appl. No.:

10/747867

Inventors:

B.J. Herbison - Bolton MA, US
Shadrack K. Kilemba - Nashua NH, US
Peter J. Chestna - Auburn MA, US
Andres M. Perez - Waltham MA, US

Assignee:

Sun Microsystems, Inc. - Santa Clara CA

International Classification:

G06F 17/00

US Classification:

715234, 715226, 715760

Abstract:

Efficient development of conventional web applications suggests extensive and thorough knowledge of web page delivery technologies such as HTML, Java, and JSPs. A rendering framework to define the static, cosmetic, “window dressing” type of content, replicated across multiple pages, in a single JSP template file which can then incorporate or include the dynamic, active content from other files, mitigates development inefficiencies. Such a rendering framework represents each screen output page by a file including the active content, while avoiding replication of the static content. Such inclusions may be nested in a hierarchical manner to enumerate the static content in one file and allow a web application to include active content according to a hierarchical inheritance. Metadata components, such as XML files, include the active content according to a predetermined declarative syntax, thereby facilitating implementation, which the framework then interprets into a resulting output page such as a JSP page.