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<TITLE>May 1997 WebApps Editorial</TITLE>
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<EM>This is a draft of the editorial of the May/Jun 1997 issue of
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<CITE>Web Apps Magazine</CITE>, ISSN #1090-2287. See also:
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<A HREF="9701webapps.html">Jan/Feb 1997 Languages Issue</A>
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<A HREF="9703-web-apps-essay.html">Mar/Apr Distributed Objects Issue</A>
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editorials, <A HREF="WebApps/Overview.html">more about WebApps</A>.</EM>
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<A href="http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/">Dan Connolly</A>
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I'll make this brief; anyone building web database applications today has
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no time for leisure reading. There are just too many databases to connect,
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and too little time. I hope the articles here will save you an hour or two,
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providing a return on your investment here.
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Client-server database systems are nothing new; they're the meat-and-potatoes
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of information technology. Connecting them to the web is a natural. In fact,
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did you know that the first web server ever exported the CERN phone database
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via HTTP?
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But the Web does stretch things a bit.
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It stretches performance: at a million hits a day, three tiers is not a novelty,
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but a simple model to start with. Add caching and replicatio to suit your
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tastes and requirements.
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It stretches--or shrinks, rather--development time: it's bad enough that
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the shelf-life of a software application is down to 18 months max: web database
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applications can last as little as a month for a promotiona campaign or a
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day for a special event. Sometimes it's hard to justify a lot of design and
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planning only to throw it all away: crossing your fingers or saying a prayer
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might seem more worth-while. But with the whole world watching your site,
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it's imperative to plan for every contingency and to develop technology that
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preserves your investment and experience from one project to the next.
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It stretches organizational boundaries; from personal calendars and address
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books, to group schedules and issue tracking, to corporate resouce management,
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to cross-enterprise interchange, to mass-media communications.
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So without further ado, I invite you to dive into the experience, techniques,
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and strategies in this issue; I think they'll give you some increased flexibility
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to make the stretch.
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