Re: Dynamic Web Page

On Tue, 23 Jul 1996, John P. Zucchero wrote: > > Imagine yourself in a large brokerage office. Your task is to design > > a system to allow brokers to pull up client portfolios in one window > > and in the same window show the current trading prices in REAL TIME. > > The web is stateless, i.e. You make a connection, get your data, > end the connection. This is a good solution for the web to not > cause saturation, but for a database app, it is bad. > John, I heard an interesting solution to this problem at the Informix World Conference in Chicago. Apparently, their Advanced Technology Group has software libraries that they install at your web site that solves the problem of spawning processes for each database request - one connection, multiple requests, one process (Don't quote me; speak to Informix). I believe security is not implemented in the new package, which once it's working corrrectly, may be given away. Yours, Nick ********************************* Nick Nobbe, Library of Congress NLS/BPH mail: nnob@loc.gov *********************************