Consistent use of WWW technology
HTML pages may access conventional databases.
But why should the database technology be taken as given?
Think of "WWW technology" as the use of large structures, built
from small, interlinked text files.
(HTML pages use one particular syntax in those text files; they may
co-exist with other syntaxes).
Our proposal: organize a database using WWW technology.
That means:
- use an object-oriented database;
- represent each object by its own text file;
- let database processor(s) load objects dynamically, like a
WWW browser.
Towards a World-Wide Data Base
(E.Sandewall)