Integrating database and World Wide Web technologies

  • Authors:
  • Hongjun Lu;Ling Feng

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Information Systems Computer Science, National University of Singapore, Lower Kent Ridge Road, Singapore E-mail: luhj@iscs.nus.edu.sg;Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, P.R. China E-mail: cslfeng@comp.polyu.edu.hk

  • Venue:
  • World Wide Web
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

Integrating database and World Wide Web technologies is another topic where industrial and practical activities lead ahead of academic ones. The purpose of this article is to survey the related activities from database people’s view and stimulate the interests among the database community. It covers three aspects. First, the efforts that apply established database techniques to retrieving Web information are summarized. These efforts aim to overcome the inadequacy of file system technology on which the Web is based, so that information can be retrieved easily and quickly from the Web. Second, various approaches to interfacing databases via the Web are discussed, with examples of accomplished prototypes and commercial products showing recent advances. Finally, some possible extensions to the traditional database techniques are investigated for building fully fledged Web-based database applications.