Basic HTML version of Foils prepared September 29, 97

Foil 9 4. Evolution of "Database Implementations" on the Web

From Master Set of Foils for 1996 Session of CPS615 NHSE Review Argonne -- September 30 97. by Geoffrey C. Fox, Wojtek Furmanski
PERL CGI scripts accessing files in file system (RIB)
CGI stub accessing Oracle with PL/SQL or directly with oraperl
  • similar solutions with Sybase etc.
Java Interfaces JDBC 2 or 3 tier (can access free MSQL or "expensive" Oracle)
  • Natural choice for a new project today
CORBA emerging possibility in the future
  • Note that one of CORBA services called POS (Persistent Object Service) offers transparent interface to a generic storage medium, be it flat file system,RDBMS or ODBMS.
  • Fancy new systems like this IBM Component Broker bring also CORBA support to other legacy backends such as mainframes, CICS, TP Monitors etc.

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