Analysis and Design of programmatic Interfaces for Integration of Diverse Web Contents

The technology that integrates various types of Web contents to build a new Web application through end-user programming is widely used nowadays. However, the Web contents do not have a uniform interface for accessing the data and computation. Most of the general Web users access information on the Web through applications until now. Hence, designing a uniform and °exible programmatic interface for integration of di®erent Web contents is unavoidable. In this paper, we propose an approach that can be used to analyze Web applications automatically and reuse the information of Web applications through the programmatic interface we designed. Our approach can support the °exible integration of Web applications, Web services and Web feeds. In our experiments, we use a large number of Web pages from di®erent types of Web applications and achieve the integration by the proposed programmatic interfaces. The experimental results show that our approach brings to the end-users a °exible and user-friendly programming environment.