Couple of minor points. It was developed by =
Oracle consulting for a set of clients.
WebDB can be considered Logical 3-tier, physical 2-tier, although you =
could run a db for just the PL/SQL engine (not sure why) but then you'd =
have 3 tiers *g*.
WebDB is positioned as more of an entry level tool. It's focused on =
easy pages, with JavaScript libraries to do things. You can customize =
it a bit if you like hacking PL/SQL.
The page layout is a bit rough in my view, but well suited to =
individuals that need to create a 'quick interface' into some tabular =
data, report barcharts, etc. The website management parts of WebDB are =
pretty cool though, as they start moving into a entry level document =
repository base with some management rules.
We have a distributed datawarehouse, and are rolling out access to WebDB =
to our content managers. They generally get field data, load it into =
the warehouse, get the area specialist to review and clean it (WebDB fir =
here), and then publish the data with WEB, Discoverer, a custom ArcView =
system (custom theme management), etc.
We have not targeted it for external application development at all.
Hope that helps.
Thor HW
BC Ministry of Environment, Lands & Parks
Oracle consulting for a set of clients.
WebDB can be considered Logical 3-tier, physical 2-tier, although you =
could run a db for just the PL/SQL engine (not sure why) but then you'd =
have 3 tiers *g*.
WebDB is positioned as more of an entry level tool. It's focused on =
easy pages, with JavaScript libraries to do things. You can customize =
it a bit if you like hacking PL/SQL.
The page layout is a bit rough in my view, but well suited to =
individuals that need to create a 'quick interface' into some tabular =
data, report barcharts, etc. The website management parts of WebDB are =
pretty cool though, as they start moving into a entry level document =
repository base with some management rules.
We have a distributed datawarehouse, and are rolling out access to WebDB =
to our content managers. They generally get field data, load it into =
the warehouse, get the area specialist to review and clean it (WebDB fir =
here), and then publish the data with WEB, Discoverer, a custom ArcView =
system (custom theme management), etc.
We have not targeted it for external application development at all.
Hope that helps.
Thor HW
BC Ministry of Environment, Lands & Parks
