GUI PROGRAM CREATION SUPPORTING APPARATUS, GUI PROGRAM CREATION SUPPORT METHOD, COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT

In a case where a screen layout creating unit replaces a generated screen layout with another screen layout, a screen layout comparing unit infers a GUI component in the pre-replacement screen layout, that is similar to a GUI component in the post-replacement screen layout, and correlates the GUI components similar to each other. A connection information restoring unit executes connection restoring processing to associate a processing program, which is associated with the GUI component in the pre-replacement screen layout, with the GUI component correlated by the screen layout comparing unit.