Synchronous to asynchronous web page conversion

A system comprising:

• a storage device;
• and
• one or more computers comprising
• a web page selector to receive, from the storage device, one or more web pages comprising static web page elements, each static web page element lacking an ability to request information associated with a uniform resource identifier (URI) without entirely refreshing a web page in which the static web page element is embedded;
• a configuration module to access first configuration information that specifies at least one of the static web page elements and to access second configuration information that specifies at least one asynchronous web page element that is configured to request information associated with a URI without entirely refreshing a web page in which the asynchronous web page element is embedded, wherein each asynchronous web page element corresponds to a static web page element specified in the first configuration information;
• and
• a migration module to perform an automatic conversion process on the one or more web pages to provide respective one or more modified web pages, wherein the automatic conversion process references the first configuration information and the second configuration information and comprises, for each web page:
• parsing the web page;
• identifying one or more static web page elements within the web page, the one or more static web page elements being specified in the first configuration information;
• replacing the one or more static web page elements with respective one or more asynchronous web page elements specified in the second configuration information;
• and
• transmitting the one or more modified web pages to the storage device.

A computer program product tangibly embodied in a computer readable storage device, the computer program product including instructions that, when executed, perform operations for adding asynchronous functionality to web pages, the operations comprising:

• receiving, from a storage device, one or more web pages comprising a plurality of static web page elements, each static web page element lacking an ability to request information associated with a uniform resource identifier (URI) without entirely refreshing a web page in which the static web page element is embedded;
• accessing first configuration information that specifies at least one of the static web page elements;
• accessing second configuration information that specifies at least one asynchronous web page element that is configured to request information associated with a URI without entirely refreshing a web page in which the asynchronous web page element is embedded, wherein each asynchronous web page element corresponds to a particular static web page element specified in the first configuration information;
• and
• performing an automatic conversion process on the one or more web pages to provide respective one or more modified web pages, the automatic conversion process referencing the first configuration information and the second configuration information and comprising, for each web page:
• parsing the web page;
• identifying one or more static web page elements within the web page, the one or more static web page elements being specified in the first configuration information;
• replacing the one or more static web page elements with respective one or more asynchronous web page elements specified in the second configuration information;
• and
• transmitting the one or more modified web pages to the storage device.