Many web applications require the use of dynamic web pages with data stored in
DBMS at the server-side. There are several techniques such as ASP, CGI, JSP,
Servlet to generate dynamic web pages. However, to design such an ap plication, it is
necessary to know the syntax of SQL and some scripting languages. The purpose of this
thesis is to design a tool, Rapid Web Application Generator (RWAG), for web
application development. This tool allows a user to create web-based applic ations
without the knowledge of DBMS and server-side programming. This tool
automatically generates database definitions and ASP pages for database
manipulations. The advantages of using the tool is as follows: first, a user can create
web applications in minutes without ever having to write any code (no need to know
ASP, Perl, or Java); secondly, advanced users can leverage their knowledge of ASP,
Perl, Java, Java Script, HTML and SQL to expand and customize the look and feel of
web applications; thirdly, the tool allows a user to own a record in the DBMS, which
means a record can only be edited by the user who creates it; finally, the tool provides
multiple user a ccess levels. RWAG is ideal for a group of users to share information
on the web. RWAG is developed using ASP and SQL Server 7.0 on Windows NT
platform.