GWB- A Web/RDBMS Gateway Program Generator

Abstract

This paper describes GWB, a WWW to RDBMS gateway CGI generator. GWB is an HTML-centric tool that generates ODBC code form an HTML-like template. It a simple yet powerful enough for most intranet as well as internet applications. This paper surveys the current approaches；describes the design goals, the language, and several intranet and internet applications using GWB. This paper also discusses future enhancement in terms of scalability, session and state management, transaction management, and high-performance.