Active Views for Electronic Commerce

Electronic commerce is emerging as a major Websupported application. In this paper we argue that database technology can, and should, provide the backbone for a wide range of such applications. More precisely, we present here the ActiveViews system, which, relying on an extensive use of database features including views, active rules (triggers), and enhanced mechanisms for notification, access control and logging/tracing of users activities, provides the needed basis for electronic commerce. Based on the emerging XML standards (DOM, query languages for XML, etc.), the system offers a novel declarative view specification language, describing the relevant data and activities of all actors (e.g. vendors and clients) participating in electronic commerce activities. Then, acting as an application generator, the system generates an actual, possibly customized, Web application that allows users to perform the given set of controlled activities and to work interactively on the specified da...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1999
• Where: VLDB
• Authors: Serge Abiteboul, Bernd Amann, Sophie Cluet, Anat Eyal, Laurent Mignet, Tova Milo
• Keywords: Database, Electronic Commerce, Electronic Commerce Activities, Major Websupported Application, VLDB 1999