Summary: WWW and Databases

From: Carol McCullough <mcculc_at_maui.net>
Date: 1996/01/27
Message-ID: <4ee6o7$5hn_at_makai.maui.net>

Anna wrote:
>Here's a question posed by a friend of mine... does anyone know of such a thing?
>
> Do you know of any pre-packaged software
> that runs under '95 or NT that performs the
> function of providing a netscape/www interface
> to a database?
>
> ie. browse on over, fill out a form, press a button
> take the information and create a new record
> on your existing database.
>
>thanks...
>AnnA
>
>
><================================= E X I T =================================>
> java_at_lglobal.com=java_at_io.org=java_at_reptiles.org
> [http://www.io.org/~java]+[http://www.dope.com/java]
>
>
>
>

Aloha all!
I posed the following question to several newsgroups. While I have not had a chance to actually research the best solution for myself, I am passing along all the replies I got so you can proceed for yourself. Hope this helps. My question:
>I am looking for software interfaces an Oracle database with Web
>pages. Software should be a graphical interface that builds query
>page and results pages based on visitor's query criteria.
>Development platform is Win95 porting to UNIX server.

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Jeff Rawlings wrote:

Do you have an ODBC driver for your Oracle database? If so, you can
use NaviServer 2.0. It's a multithreaded Web server, and it has a plug-in database services module. It will build entry, search, and
update forms for your tables, and it will format the query results
into an HTML table or a PRE table depending on the browser.

You can find it at:

        http://naviserver.navisoft.com/

Cheers,

Jeff Rawlings <> NaviService: Web Hosting from NaviSoft

Webmaster                <>  *Multiple T3 with 7x24 monitoring

rawlings_at_navisoft.com <> *Remote authoring & maintenance software
http://www.navisoft.com/ <> *Relational database and full APIs

Loren Davidson wrote:
Carol,

We're currently using one technology and evaluating two others:

1. Perl 4.036 and Oraperl: The "old fashioned way" of connecting Web pages to an Oracle database. See http://www.intellimatch.com/cgi-bin/ecf/ecf.cgi for a structured resume creator that uses this way of getting info from Web pages into an Oracle database.
2. Oracle's Web Server and PL/SQL packages to emulate HTML: We're evaluating this for a new product that I can't give you a pointer to right now, and it seems to be doing a reasonable job. I will probably start playing with this soon.
3. There's something called Spider which is apparently a program authoring tool of some kind. We have consultants building an application for us in it, and I haven't seen anything at all yet of how it works.

Another possibility, from what I hear, is to use the DBD/DBM database
connectivity modules, available online, with Perl 5. Another solution I
haven't tried.

I hear there are database connectivity applets and/or interfaces being written
for Java, but I haven't seen them yet.

If you get any good, definitive information on this subject, I'd be very
interested in hearing the results.

Loren

Loren Davidson ldavidson_at_intellimatch.com Internet Specialist/Webmaster, IntelliMatch Inc. http://www.intellimatch.com
That which does not kill us makes us stranger.

Lisa Fearing wrote:

Have you been to Oracle's Web Interface site?

http://dozer.us.oracle.com:8080/

I'm getting ready to delve into OraPerl...so I'd appreciate it if you would pass along any useful information.

Thanks,

-Leisa Fearing
 leisa_at_elf.net

Max Airborne wrote:
Here are some resources I've been checking out that sound like they may be
of interest to you:

Spider: http://www.w3spider.com/

Oracle WWW Interface Kit: http://dozer.us.oracle.com:8080/

There are other things, like the Netscape Publishing system, which is Oracle
and a Netscape server and a bunch of pre-packaged scripts integrated
together. I'm installing that now on an SGI, and it's a BEAR. TOns of
midification of configuration files, etc. Yuck-o. Even the Unix gurus at my
office steer way clear of that task.

Another thing we've been checking out here is called Dynamo. It's not a
*relational* database, but it seems pretty snappy for browser-sensitive
dynamic generation of pages, with provided scripts. http://www.atg-dynamo.com/dynamo/

A good starting point for exploration of different products is the Virtual
Developer's Library:

http://www.charm.net/~web/Vlib/Providers/Database.html

Good luck in your search!

--max
Max Airborne

airborne_at_sirius.com     http://www.fatgirl.com/max/
max_at_factory.net         http://www.factory.net

Rachel Luxemburg wrote:
Well, gosh, I just happen to own a brand-new, small ISP here in NYC. I'd like
to say "We can do all of the above", but I don't have listserv facilities yet
(probably will when the people who make post.office add that to their
software), and I'm running WebSite 1.1, which has some good security
features, but not on the order of the Netscape Commerce Server or its ilk.
As with the listserv feature, when Website adds secure transactions I'll add
it.

However, I do have some very nice database facilities!

If I can help, great. If not, such is life!

Best regards, Rachel

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Rachel Luxemburg
RSLux_at_link-net.com

LinkAmerica Internet Access
info_at_link-net.com
www.link-net.com

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Other possibilities:
Check out:

Nomad Dev Corp	web.ndev.com
Spider		www.w3spider.com	
Allaire		www.allaire.com
net.Genesis	netgen.com
W3.COM		w3.com
Bluestone	www.bluestone.com
VPE		www.vpe.com

Sybase		www.sybase.com
Oracle		www.oracle.com
Informix	www.informix.com
Illustra	www.illustra.com
Navisoft	www.navisoft.com



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