Corporate Windows: WebPublisher

About WebPublisher V2.2
WebPublisher is a Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP) Server that allows database content to be published live on the World Wide Web (WWW). The software can be deployed in many different ways to satisfy the needs of any organisation wishing to maintain maximum portability of data.

This suite of HTTP tools offers enormous flexibility to programmers and non-programmers alike because web sites can be built using small, specific-purpose database libraries comprising dedicated applications (eg. a diary, year planner, employee listings etc.) that are connected and published using standard HTML. It also opens up the market for database developers to create WebPublisher plug-ins performing specific functions or even complete applications (real estate, computer-dating, news list management, church calendar etc.) on the web.

Applications
WebPublisher is designed to perform a multitude of functions that enable database content to be published over TCP/IP. It can be configured to deliver a range of web services including:

Publishing and acquiring database content over a TCP/IP enabled network;
Acting as an integration portal collecting streams of data from a variety of hosts;
Behaving as a responder/transponder to transparently acquire and mark up data across networks;
Thick/thin client data management strategies from any point of presence.

Grab entire web sites and immediately publish them to the Internet or a corporate intranet. Grab a site and move to another address or location simply and easily. WebPublisher includes search and replace tools to permit easy update of all text, links and anchor references.

WebPublisher is written in Omnis (from Omnis Software Inc) and this allows additional programming using "plug-in" WebPublisher libraries to permit custom DBMS solutions over the Internet. Almost anything you can imagine doing using TCP/IP can deployed using one or more custom libraries developed with WebPublisher.

Typical applications that can be built using WebPublisher include on-line sales catalogues, price lists, rental accommodation, for sale notices, survey results and virtually any form of content which changes periodically.