IOE Progress to Date: Testing, Evaluation & Prototyping
Prototype of User Interface System (Portal model) http://aim.ncsa.uiuc.edu (NCSA)
Security Infrastructure: Kerberos API for authentication, PKI for encryption (NCSA)
Client-Middle tier Interactions (NCSA, SU)
- XSQL Servlet (DB table converted to XML and displayed by IE)
- XML SQL Utility (client and server side conversion of DB table into XML file and vice versa)
- XML Parser for Java with DOM, SAX and XSL interfaces
Middle tier-Database Interactions (SU)
- Thin JDBC and OCI8 drivers for access to the Database
- Loading formatted documents (Word, PPT, PDF) into database table with BLOB column