Patent ID: 7469258

Claim:
A method for supporting program development, said method comprising: analyzing XML data corresponding to a form screen, and specifying a business class to be coded in an object-oriented programming language, said business class corresponding to a tag included in said XML data; referring to a business class manager in which items of said business classes, which are classes before compilation and to be created, are registered, and judging whether an item of the specified business class has not been registered in said business class manager; upon detecting that said item of the specified business class has not been registered in said business class manager, registering said item of the specified business class in said business class manager; specifying a form item storing object by a tag included in said XML data corresponding to said form screen; referring to a form item storing object manager in which items of form item storing objects to be created are registered, and judging whether an item of the specified form item storing object has not been registered in said form item storing object manager; and upon detecting that said item of the specified form item storing object has not been registered in said form item storing object manager, registering said item of the specified form item storing object into said form item storing object manager.