Self-maintaining web pages: from theory to practice

  • Authors:
  • Martin Bernauer;Michael Schrefl

  • Affiliations:
  • Business Informatics Group, Institute of Software Technology and Interactive Systems, Vienna University of Technology, Favoritenstrsse 9-11/188-4, 1040 Vienna, Austria;Data and Knowledge Engineering, Department of Business Informatics, University of Linz, Austria

  • Venue:
  • Data & Knowledge Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

The self-maintaining web pages (SMWP) approach employs concepts from distributed database design and active databases to keep pre-generated web pages in synchronization with database content. It maps fragments of relations to web pages and propagates modifications of relations incrementally to web pages. This paper shows how the SMWP approach can be put into practice using off-the-shelf relational database technology. It presents a declarative language for the definition of parameterized fragments and web pages, shows how fragments are stored, and describes how previously presented algorithms for propagating modifications of relations to web pages can be realized by database triggers.