Web databases (25)
Good links | Worth reading| Selected list| Database Integration tools
Good links
  • Database Central Bills itself as: "The ultimate resource for batabase programmers and users." 
  • The Data Movement Resource Center was created to help you understand some of the challenges of data movement and to present innovative solutions. Helping you understand the ways you can transform application data into eData—putting data at the maximum point of leverage for your organization.

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Worth reading
  • Web Databases  Mar. 26, 1999. Designing good databases has nothing to do with computers; it's about defining needs and planning ahead. John Paul Ashenfelter shows seven steps of good database design.
Selected list of Web databases software
  • XtraSiteTM is a fully customizable web based interactive database software. XtraSiteTM allows you to easily make your company's internal database available to associates, customers, and suppliers world-wide and it is for developers and business to use.
  • mySQL to add a searchable online database to your website
  • eXpertBase FREE Internet knowledge management system, ExpertBase could add the power of database technology to your existing or planned Web site.
  • WODA (A Web Oriented DAtabase development system) a Perl based freeware.It sits in the web server's cgi-bin directory and is very configurable. It can import/export records in a variety of formats and has various levels of security
  • ODARS2web Automatically generate tailor made Web database application
Database Integration tools and languages
  • ASP  Server Side Scripting and Database Integration Language.  Platforms: Windows 95/98, Windows NT . ASP is Microsoft's server-side scripting language that is available with IIS and SiteServer, and for which Microsofts Visual Interdev RAD environment is designed. ASP allows programmers to embed VisualBasic-like code into their HTML, which code can query databases, dynamically generate HTML, or call out to arbitrary COM objects on the server.
  • ColdFusion Server Side Scripting language, and Database Integration tool. Platforms: Sun Solaris, Windows NT. This award-winning application server allows developers to templatize their HTML, incorporate database data, dynamically generate HTML based on client browser & platform, cookies, session state, or any other information accessible to the server, send email, log custom information to server-side files, and much more. Very powerful, easy-to-use scripting language that integrates naturally with HTML. 
  • DrumBeat GUI-based authoring tool for building database-driven web applications in ASP without coding. Platforms: Windows 95/98, Windows NT. Drumbeat is a web-application authoring environment that provides WYSIWYG editing, Wizards for code-generation, and Graphical site-management tools. 
  • Hahtsite  Enterprise-class web application server.  Platforms: AIX, HP-UX, Sun Solaris,

  • Windows NT. Tool for developing robust web applications for large corporate intranets or extranets. Allows access to database data, the coding of business logic, server clustering with failover, and excellent server management tools. 
  • Jasmine Objects@Work  Combination Object-Oriented Database Server and Web Application Server. This tool allows developers to build object-oriented databases, make web-based views of objects, and publish them to the web. It is therefore a very powerful Web Application Server.
  • Sapphire/Web  Enterprise-class web-application server. Platforms: Java (Runs anywhere). Tool for developing robust web applications for large corporate intranets or extranets. Allows access to database data, the coding of business logic in Java, server clustering with failover, and excellent server management tools.
  • WebObjects  High-end web application server that enable users to quickly deploy robust enterprise-wide object-oriented applications. Platforms: Other Unix, Windows NT. WebObjects is a comprehensive package for enterprise web-application development. It has tools for automatic HTML generation, linking to back-end databases, linking to ERP systems, large class libraries, and multiple server-mangement tools. 
  • Zope  Open source Web Application Server, with integrated object oriented database. Platforms: FreeBSD, Linux, Other, Other Unix, SGI Irix, Sun Solaris, Windows 95/98, Windows NT. Zope is an object-oriented web application server, with its own object-oriented database. It allows you to make classes, and "publish" objects of these classes to the web. Allows for powerful server-side scripting, and incorporation of relational database data into web pages. Has ability to easily implement  content-management schema's. 

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