Web Application Development Support Tool has retired.

Hideki Tai received his B.S. in Information Sciences in 1995 and his M.S. in Information Sciences and Electronics in 1997 from University of Tsukuba. His research interests include application development tools and run-time environments. Mr. Tai is currently working at IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory. He is a member of the Information Processing Society of Japan.

Takashi Nerome received his B.S.E. and M.S.E. degrees, both in Information Engineering from Ryukyu University, Japan, in 1994 and 1996, respectively. His research interests include speculative processing and development tools and methods for Web applications. Mr. Nerome is currently working at IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory. He is a member of the Information Processing Society of Japan.

Mari Abe received her B.E in Electrical Engineering and M.E in Computer Science from Keio University in 1998 and 2000, respectively. She is a Ph.D candidate at Keio University. Ms. Abe's research interests include Web content authoring and information visualization. She is currently working at IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory.

Masahiro Hori leads a research group for programming models and tools at IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory. He received his M.E. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from Osaka University in 1986 and 1989, respectively. His research interests include Web content authoring and adaptation, knowledge engineering methodologies, and object-oriented software reuse. Dr. Hori is a member of the Industrial Advisory Board of the IBROW project conducted under the IST program of the European Commission. He received research awards in 1992 and 1997 from the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI). He is a member of JSAI and the Information Processing Society of Japan.

For platform(s):

• Windows 2000
• Win XP