Patent ID: 7305657

Claim:
A Web server that has a function of a Java servlet and stores a Java program that performs a process of generating an HTML file of a Web page for a display on a terminal device of a network user, the Web server comprising: an obtaining portion obtaining an HTML file of a Web page from a terminal device of a person who modified the Web page; a first conversion portion converting the obtained HTML file of the Web page into Java code; a program updating portion updating the Java program by replacing the converted Java code of the obtained HTML file of the Web page with a part of the Java program related to a structure of the Web page; an extraction portion extracting Java code of a part related to a structure of a designated Web page from the updated Java program; a second conversion portion converting the extracted Java code into an HTML file; and a transmission portion transmitting the converted HTML file to the terminal device that made the designation, wherein if the obtained HTML file contains a tag indicating a part of the obtained HTML file that cannot be modified, the first conversion portion converts the tag into a corresponding Java code indicating the part that cannot be modified, and the second conversion portion converts the corresponding Java code indicating the part that cannot be modified, contained in the extracted Java code into the tag of the obtained HTML file containing the unmodified part.