Web Programming with Caché Server Pages

Databases have become an indispensable enabling technology for dynamic Web content, on both the Internet and company intranets (cf. Atzeni et al. [1999]). This chapter describes how Cache and a Web server can dynamically create content by retrieving up-to-date information from a database and presenting it in a browser. The base technology required to achieve this involves Cache Server Pages (CSP), which Cache has supported since version 4. CSP offers an elegant means of producing highperformance,highly scalable Web applications in a short time. They also simplify the subsequent maintenance and the further development of such applications.