NORMALIZING A PAGE FLOW

• US 20150007006A1
• Filed: 05/23/2014
• Published: 01/01/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 06/27/2013
• Status: Active Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: KAMINSKY, DAVID L., WANG, XI NING, LIU, YING, LV, SHUANGTAO, YIN, RUI
• Granted Patent: US 10,255,373 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/205
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking

Abstract

A method and/or an apparatus normalizes a page flow into a portlet. The method comprises: generating at least one portlet based on one or more pages in the page flow; building at least one of an intra-portlet action and an inter-portlet action for the least one portlet; and modifying a Uniform Resource Locator URL in the at least one portlet. With the method and the apparatus, the page flow developed by a developer can be automatically normalized into the portlet which is easier to be shared between difference applications and integrated with an existing portal application, so that the developer can focus on development of page flow while achieving user experience and advantages specific to the portlet.

Claims

1. A method for normalizing a page flow into a portlet, the method comprising:

generating at least one portlet based on one or more pages in the page flow;

building at least one of an intra-portlet action and an inter-portlet action for the least one portlet; and

modifying a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) in the at least one portlet.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the generating at least one portlet based on one or more pages in the page flow includes:

determining a page, which is to be generated into each portlet, in the one or more pages; and

generating the at least one portlet based on the page, which is to be generated into each portlet.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein the determining one or more pages to be generated into at least one portlet includes:

in response to one page in the one or more pages being linked to another independent page, determining that the one page and the another independent page are generated into two portlets;

in response to one page in the one or more pages being linked to another page for overlaying the one page, determining that the one page and the another page are generated into a same portlet.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the building at least one of an intra-portlet action and an inter-portlet action for the least one portlet includes:

building the intra-portlet action based on linking relationship among pages included in one portlet; and

building the inter-portlet action based on linking relationship among a plurality of pages included in a plurality of portlets, respectively.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the URL indicates a relative path of the portlet, and wherein the modifying the URL of the at least one portlet includes:

converting the URL into a URL indicating an absolute path of the portlet; and

modifying the URL in the at least one portlet based on a type of the converted URL.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the URL indicates an absolute path of the portlet, and wherein the modifying the URL of the at least one portlet includes:

modifying the URL in the at least one portlet based on a type of the URL.

7. The method according to claim 5, wherein the modifying the URL of the at least one portlet based on the type of the URL includes:

in response to the URL corresponding to a link in the page and an object of the link is not a new window or a new tab, converting the URL into a URL carrying navigation state information; and

in response to the URL being located in a JavaScript file, converting a URL indicating a relative path in the JavaScript file into a URL indicating an absolute path.

8. An apparatus for normalizing a page flow into a portlet, comprising:

a portlet generating hardware device configured to generate at least one portlet based on one or more pages in the page flow;

an action building hardware device configured to build at least one of an intra-portlet action and an inter-portlet action for the at least one portlet; and

a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) modifying hardware device configured to modify a URL of the at least one portlet.

9. The apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the portlet generating hardware device includes:

a determining unit configured to determine a page(s), which is to be generated into each portlet, in the plurality of pages; and

a generating unit configured to generate the at least one portlet based on the page(s) which is determined to be generated into each portlet.

10. The apparatus according to claim 9, wherein in response to one page in the one or more pages being linked to another independent page, the determining unit determines that the one page and the another independent page are generated into two portlets, and in response to one page in the one or more pages being linked to another page for overlaying the one page, the determining unit determines that the one page and the another page are generated into a same portlet.

11. The apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the action building hardware device includes:

an inter-portlet action building unit configured to build the intra-portlet action based on linking relationship among pages included in one portlet; and

an intra-portlet action building unit configured to build the inter-portlet action based on linking relationship among a plurality of pages included in a plurality of portlets, respectively.

12. The apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the URL indicates a relative path of the portlet, and wherein the URL modifying hardware device includes:

a conversion unit configured to convert the URL into a URL indicating an absolute path of the portlet;

a modifying unit configured to modify the URL in the at least one portlet based on a type of the converted URL.

13. The apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the URL indicates an absolute path of the portlet, and wherein, the URL modifying hardware device includes:

a modifying unit configured to modify the URL in the at least one portlet based on a type of the URL.

14. The apparatus according to claim 12, wherein in response to the URL corresponding to a link in the page and an object of the link is not a new window or a new tab, the modifying unit converts the URL into a URL carrying navigation state information, and in response to the URL being located in a JavaScript file, the modifying unit converts a URL indicating a relative path in the JavaScript file into a URL indicating an absolute path.

15. A computer program product for normalizing a page flow into a portlet, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program code embodied therewith, the program code readable and executable by a processor to perform a method comprising:

generating at least one portlet based on one or more pages in the page flow;

building at least one of an intra-portlet action and an inter-portlet action for the least one portlet; and

modifying a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) in the at least one portlet.

16. The computer program product according to claim 15, wherein the generating at least one portlet based on one or more pages in the page flow includes:

determining a page, which is to be generated into each portlet, in the one or more pages; and

generating the at least one portlet based on the page, which is to be generated into each portlet.

17. The computer program product according to claim 16, wherein the determining one or more pages to be generated into at least one portlet includes:

in response to one page in the one or more pages being linked to another independent page, determining that the one page and the another independent page are generated into two portlets;

in response to one page in the one or more pages being linked to another page for overlaying the one page, determining that the one page and the another page are generated into a same portlet.

18. The computer program product according to claim 15, wherein the building at least one of an intra-portlet action and an inter-portlet action for the least one portlet includes:

building the intra-portlet action based on linking relationship among pages included in one portlet; and

building the inter-portlet action based on linking relationship among a plurality of pages included in a plurality of portlets, respectively.

19. The computer program product according to claim 15, wherein the URL indicates a relative path of the portlet, and wherein the modifying the URL of the at least one portlet includes:

converting the URL into a URL indicating an absolute path of the portlet; and

modifying the URL in the at least one portlet based on a type of the converted URL.

20. The computer program product according to claim 15, wherein the URL indicates an absolute path of the portlet, and wherein the modifying the URL of the at least one portlet includes:

modifying the URL in the at least one portlet based on a type of the URL; and

wherein the modifying the URL of the at least one portlet based on the type of the URL includes;

in response to the URL corresponding to a link in the page and an object of the link is not a new window or a new tab, converting the URL into a URL carrying navigation state information; and

in response to the URL being located in a JavaScript file, converting a URL indicating a relative path in the JavaScript file into a URL indicating an absolute path.