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Database access through the Web is achieved through middleware that links webservers to databases and other services. The World Wide Web originated in 1990 at CERN to allow scientists to share biological information and has grown tremendously, now containing hundreds of millions of web pages. Information is stored on web servers in files encoded with HTML and accessed via URLs, with popular browsers like Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator interpreting and presenting the pages.

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Database

Database access through the Web is achieved through middleware that links webservers to databases and other services. The World Wide Web originated in 1990 at CERN to allow scientists to share biological information and has grown tremendously, now containing hundreds of millions of web pages. Information is stored on web servers in files encoded with HTML and accessed via URLs, with popular browsers like Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator interpreting and presenting the pages.

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Databases on the World Wide Web

◗ Database access through the Web is achieved through middleware. To


improve the capabilities on the client side of the Web browser, you must
use plug-ins and other client-side extensions such as Java and
JavaScript, or ActiveX
and VBScript. On the server side, Web application servers are
middleware that expands the functionality of Webservers by linking
them to a wide range of services, such as databases, directory systems,
and search engines.
The World Wide Web (WWW)—popularly known as "the Web"—
originally developed in Switzerland
at CERN (Note 1) in early 1990 as a large-scale hypermedia information
service system for biological
scientists to share information (Note 2). Today this technology allows
universal access to this shared
information to anyone having access to the Internet and the Web
contains hundreds of millions of Web
pages within the reach of millions of users.
In Web technology, a basic client-server architecture underlies all
activities. Information is stored on
computers designated as Web servers in publicly accessible shared files
encoded using HyperText
Markup Language (HTML). A number of tools enable users to create
Web pages formatted with
HTML tags, freely mixed with multimedia content—from graphics to
audio and even to video. A page
has many interspersed hyperlinks—literally a link that enables a user to
"browse" or move from one
page to another across the Internet. This ability has given a tremendous
power to end users in searching
and navigating related information—often across different continents.
Information on the Web is organized according to a Uniform Resource
Locator (URL)—something
similar to an address that provides the complete pathname of a file. The
pathname consists of a string
of machine and directory names separated by slashes and ends in a
filename. For example, the table of
contents of this book is currently at the following URL:

http://cseng.aw.com/book/0,,0805317554,00.html

A URL always begins with a hypertext transport protocol (http), which is


the protocol used by the
Web browsers, a program that communicates with the Web server, and
vice versa. Web browsers interpret and present HTML documents to
users. Popular Web browsers include the Internet Explorer
of Microsoft and the Netscape Navigator. A collection of HTML
documents and other files accessible
via the URL on a Web server is called a Web site. In the above URL,
"www.awl.com" may be called
the Web site of Addison Wesley Publishing.

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