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- WWW Data
- Vers. 1.0-ab / March 1998
- Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998 SW Wings
-
- DESCRIPTION
-
- WWW Data is a data base system specifically designed to be accessed
- and used on the World Wide Web. WWW Data targets all the application
- domains in which it is required to make data available to a large forum
- of users, across the Web. With WWW Data the end users interact with the
- data base, enter their queries (without having to know "SQL") and obtain
- their results directly at their location. The WWW Data Man Machine
- Interface gives the end users the feeling they are interacting with a
- local application and not with a remote data base system.
- The same level of usability is offered to the people who want to publish
- their data. They only need to specify in a simple data definition language
- the data they want to publish and which end users (on the Web) areallowed
- to access and manipulate these data. After that, WWW Data uses this
- specification to automatically create the data base, the required HTML form,
- the CGI application as well as a set of tools to initially populate and
- maintain the data base.
-
- INSTALLATION
-
- 1. Requirements
-
- WWW data requires a C/C++ compiler. The user generated schema is
- converted by WDCOMP into a C module that needs to be compiled and linked
- to the WWW Data distribution files. For Windows (Windows 95 and Windows
- NT), the Microsoft Visual C++ 5.0 (or above) Compiler is required.
-
- 2. Decompress WWW Data Distribution Files
-
-
- The WWW Data distribution contains the following files:
- htm_w32.zip - WWW Data HTML documentation
- www_w32.zip - WWW Data object and executable files
- uti_w32.zip - Utilities to register WWW Data
- readme.txt - this file
-
- Supposing that the files set has been downloaded in the directory
-
- c:\tmp
-
- these are the commands that have to be executed:
-
- c: (the actual target disk must be put
- here, so instead of c: we could
- have d:, e: and so on)
- cd \ (to go to the root)
- pkunzip -d c:\tmp\htm_w32.zip (to decompress the HTML files)
- pkunzip -d c:\tmp\www_w32.zip (to decompress WWW Data files)
- pkunzip -d c:\tmp\uti_w32.zip (to decompress the registration
- utilities)
-
- When using a Windows version on "pkunzip" care must be taken so that the
- original directories/files names are kept.
-
-
- 3. Setting the WWW Server
-
- The World Wide Web Server has to be set up in such a way that the WWW
- Data CGI can access all the relevant HTML files. Supposing that the
- server is similar to the NCSA one, hereafter are listed the required
- changes.
-
- 3.1 "access.conf"
-
- In the file "access.conf" an entry similar to the following has to be
- inserted. This change will make the SWWINGS directory visible to the WWW
- Server.
-
- <Directory C:/SWWINGS/>
- </Directory>
-
- 3.2 "srm.conf"
-
- In the file "srm.conf", and namely in the "alias" section, an entry
- similar to the following has to be inserted. This change will allow the
- hyper-links in the WWW Data HTML pages to work properly.
-
-
- Alias /swwings/ C:/SWWINGS/
-
- 4. Preparing for the first run
-
- After all the steps described above have been performed, it will be
- possible to create the first schema as described in the Detailed
- Description (Check the HTML documentation files).
-
- When the schema is ready, it will only be necessary to put its name in
- the distributed "makefile". This is accomplished by changing its first
- line, as follows:
-
- # Insert in the CSCHEMA variable the actual schema name
- CSCHEMA = library
-
- After this operation, the command
-
- make all
-
- will generate all the WWW DATA executable files.
-
- NOTE
-
- It is recommended to put these applications, as well as the registration
- utilities, in a different directory than the original ones. The batch
- files "go.bat" in WWWDATA and UTILS directories will put these
- executable files in the directory /SWWINGS/BIN. It is also recommended
- to add this directory to the environment variable PATH; this way all the
- WWW Data executable files and the registration utilities will be
- directly available.
-
-
- REGISTRATION
-
- WWW Data is shareware (and not freeware). If you find WWW Data valuable
- you should register it.
-
- The unregistered copy of WWW Data can only handle up to 50 records per
- data file. This constraint only applies to WWW Data CGI (i.e. all the
- other tools needed to locally create, populate and mantain the data base
- work normally). Moreover the text "unregistered copy" is printed in the
- title of every single form used by WWW Data CGI and on a "Javascript
- scroller" in the status line of the browser. The registered copy does
- not have these limitations.
-
- To register check out the relevant HTML pages in the distributed
- documentation.
-
-
- COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIM
-
- 1. Copyright
-
- Copyright (c) 1996, 1997, 1998 SW Wings.
-
- Permission to copy, distribute and use the unregistered version of WWW
- Data and its documentation is hereby granted without fee, provided that
- the above copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all
- copies of this software and related documentation.
-
-
- 2. Disclaim
-
- WWW Data is provided "as-is" and without warranty of any kind, express,
- implied or otherwise, including without limitation, any warranty of
- merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
-
- In no event shall SW Wings be liable for any special, incidental,
- indirect or consequential damages of any kind, or any damages whatsoever
- resulting from loss of use, data or profits, whether or not advised of
- the possibility of damage, and on any theory of liability, arising out
- or in connection with the use or performance of this software.
-
-
- PROBLEMS AND FEEDBACKS
-
- Installation/usage problems, feedbacks and so on can be reported to
- SW WINGS.
-
- Alessandra Scarpari
- SW WINGS
- Van der Weijdenlaan 26
- 2211 JM Noordwijkerhout
- The Netherlands
- swwings@swwings.com
-