Re: Web Application Server and Dynamic Maps

From: Ken Leach <KLeach_at_ids.net>
Date: 1998/01/28
Message-ID: <34CFAE4E.ED020F19@ids.net>#1/1

Allen M. Bonneau wrote:

> We want to integrate some of our existing Web Apps with our Oracle Web
> Applications Server, but we aren't sure how to proceed. One of our
> existing Apps (a cgi-bin program) dynamically builds maps using
> flat-file data. We want to place the flat-file data into the
> database, but aren't sure how to proceed with retrieving the data and
> building the maps in the same step. Currently the map data is read
> from a flat-file, and an overlay for a map created, and then merged
> with an existing map. The overlay is updated regularly using a
> meta-refresh tag. We do have one constraint though, we cannot use
> Java or Javascript.
>
> We are running the following:
> Oracle 7.3.
> WAS 3.0
>
> Is this something that we can do with WRB (Web Request Broker), or am
> I missing something easy? Any suggestions would be appreciated (or
> other methods to accomplish this task). Thanks.
>
> Allen M. Bonneau

May I suggest you talk to Shoreline Software.. they have a product that will allow you to use ANY database and create/serve web pages on the

fly..etc.. it is called WSB (Web Solution Builder)  I have worked with
it.. and I have NO idea what I would do without it!
www.shoresoft.com

Call them... the number is on the page... Received on Wed Jan 28 1998 - 00:00:00 CST