Web Services

The marriage of database publishing with Internet techology.

Developing Web Services

There are many solutions to publishing database information on the web. However, the focus of these is increasingly towards the W3 consortium's XML standards.

The real point about this is that an increasing number of applications are designed to run in your browser, in preference to any other software installed on your PC.

The 'tiered' approach is well understood as the basis for long-lived secure applications; XML provides a mechanism for applying this approach to web applications.

A growing number of businesses understand that systems development to this standard will support longer life in your software and benefit compatibility and future support requirements.

Web Publishing

While there are more aspects to XML than publishing information on the web, this is a natural application of the technology.

We have growing experience of database publishing using XML templates, through both the Apache^® and Microsoft^® web servers.