MOWI Version 2
Written by Andrew McAllister and Jon Ballenger
Copyright August 3, 1996
MOWI, pronounced like the island in Hawaii, is a Web to Oracle interface that uses the power of Oracle's PL/SQL® language to turn your database into a web application.
MOWI Version 2 uses your web server and CGI to turn URL's and HTML forms into stored procedure calls in Oracle. Using PL/SQL you can process web forms, update data, and return results to your users or to the entire world.
New features in MOWI Version 2 include...
- Two operating modes: Standalone mode and Daemon mode
- Expanded PL/SQL wrapper functions that produce HTML v3.2
- Multi-valued form variables (PL/SQL Arrays)
- Access to CGI environment variables inside Oracle
- Configurable HTML headers which allow you to send Netscape® Cookies or use external authentication tools
MOWI is designed to work on most Unix operating systems, and is distributed as source code so that you can make site specific enhancements or changes. To make MOWI version 2 run on your server, you will need...
- A web server that complies with the CGI 1.1 standard. MOWI has been tested with NCSA and Apache servers
- An Oracle RDBMS (compilation requires Oracle Call Interface libraries)
- A C compiler
- Some skills in programming Oracle's PL/SQL language (sample code is included for novices)
This software package includes installation instructions, a sample application, complete source code, and a brief history of MOWI.
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