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Development system providing HTML database control object

  • US 6,714,928 B1
  • Filed: 03/17/2000
  • Issued: 03/30/2004
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/19/1999
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method for providing a Web-based database control object, the method comprising:

  • at design time, creating a definition of a Web-based database control object based on input of a developer user for visually dropping a data window design time control object corresponding to said Web-based database control object onto an HTML editing surface and using said data window design time control object for receiving input of the developer user for modifying properties of said Web-based database control object as appropriate for data access;

    receiving at a Web server a request from an end user'"'"'s Web browser for a particular Web page;

    passing the request to a page server;

    at the page server, locating a Web page template for the requested Web page, said Web page template including a definition of the Web-based database control object;

    executing server-side scripts in said Web page template, said server-side scripts establishing a connection to a server component and passing to the server component information about said Web-based database control object;

    at the server component, performing substeps of;

    establishing a connection with a database, retrieving data required for said Web-based database control object from the database, based on said definition of said Web-based database control object, generating hypertext markup language and script commands for rendering said Web-based database control object at the end user'"'"'s browser, and returning said generated hypertext markup language and script commands to the page server;

    at the page server replacing the server-side script in the requested Web page with the generated hypertext markup language and script commands; and

    returning the page to the end user'"'"'s Web browser, said page rendering said Web-based database control object with data from said database, such that rendering said Web-based database control object in the end user'"'"'s Web browser occurs without requiring a runtime library at the end user'"'"'s Web browser.

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