Abstract
The increasing popularity of the World-Wide Web (WWW) has resulted in a growing interest of companies to make use of the Internet for marketing, selling and presentation purposes. Moreover, with evolving Intranets, there is also a rising demand in using the Web for core business applications. Given the fact that databases are used in many business areas as information repositories, the idea of combining easy to use user interfaces as provided by the World-Wide Web browsers with state-of-the-art data management facilities as supported by today's database management facilities appears to be promising. However, there exist a variety of different technical solutions for connecting databases to the Web, each of them having its strengths and weaknesses with respect to criteria of the individual application domains.
This contribution presents a taxonomy of concepts underlying database and World-Wide Web connectivity and demonstrates for each type of application which solutions might be chosen.
This work has been supported by the Austrian Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung (FWF) under grant No. J01330-TEC.
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Ehmayer, G., Kappel, G., Reich, S. (1997). Connecting databases to the web: A taxonomy of gateways. In: Hameurlain, A., Tjoa, A.M. (eds) Database and Expert Systems Applications. DEXA 1997. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1308. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0022013
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