Re: Help please. I have to web-enable this thing.......

Alternatively, take a look at Oracle Developer Server. This product can take an existing D2K application and serve it up in a web browser by interpreting the D2K runtime files into Java. You will need to set up a web server as well as Developer Server; for that, you could consider Oracle Application Server or the many other web servers available.

I have been involved in making this work using D2K 1.6 and Netscape's web server (on an intranet, not the internet, though). It's not a bad solution, but your application won't look like it was designed for the web from the ground up. The advantage is that you won't have to change much (if any) of your D2K code.

Rich Gilmour wrote:
>
> First and easiest and relatively cheap thing that comes to my mind is that
> first, you need a web server (my experinece is with NT running Internet
> Information Server, which comes with the NT Server). Setup up an ODBC
> connection to the database, use Active Server Pages (VBScript embedded
> within an HTML document) to extract data and display it.
>
> There are dozens of other ways (Unix/PERL/Tcl, ColdFusion, Vignette,
> Drumbeat, etc...) but this is what I know. Do a search on ASP (Active
> Server Pages) and you'll find thousands of tutorials....
>
> Best of luck,
>
> Rich Gilmour
>
> Richard Hollingsworth wrote:
>
> > Hi folks. Thanks for reading this.
> >
> > I have a small and simple Oracle8 DB which is a problem reporting
> > system. Build it with D2K 2.1.
> >
> > Now the boss wants it web-enabled. Hey, I'm an Oracle Geek, not a web
> > Geek.
> >
> > Could someone tell me (or point me to a web site) how to take a simple
> > Oracle8 DB and publish it on the web?
> >
> > Can I do it simply, or do I need to buy some special Oracle product(s)
> > to do the job?
> >
> > Any advise or help will be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Richard Hollingsworth
> > Boeing
Received on Fri Jan 07 2000 - 11:01:38 CST