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Active Views for Electronic Commerce

Serge Abiteboul, Bernd Amann, Sophie Cluet, Adi Eyal, Laurent Mignet, and Tova Milo

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Abstract
Electronic commerce is emerging as a major Web-supported 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 Active-Views 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 data in a standard distributed environment.

The ActiveView system is developed at INRIA on top of Java and ArdentSoftware's XML repository.


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Referenced by

  1. Serge Abiteboul , Vincent Aguilera , Sébastien Ailleret , Bernd Amann , Sophie Cluet , Brendan Hills , Frédéric Hubert , Jean-Claude Mamou , Amélie Marian , Laurent Mignet , Tova Milo , Cassio Souza dos Santos , Bruno Tessier , Anne-Marie Vercoustre : XML Repository and Active Views Demonstration. VLDB 1999 : 742-745

BIBTEX

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/vldb/AbiteboulACEMM99,
  author    = {Serge Abiteboul and
                Bernd Amann and
                Sophie Cluet and
                Adi Eyal and
                Laurent Mignet and
                Tova Milo},
   editor    = {Malcolm P. Atkinson and
                Maria E. Orlowska and
                Patrick Valduriez and
                Stanley B. Zdonik and
                Michael L. Brodie},
   title     = {Active Views for Electronic Commerce},
   booktitle = {VLDB'99, Proceedings of 25th International Conference on Very
                Large Data Bases, September 7-10, 1999, Edinburgh, Scotland,
                UK},
   publisher = {Morgan Kaufmann},
   year      = {1999},
   isbn      = {1-55860-615-5},
   pages     = {138-149},
   crossref  = {DBLP:conf/vldb/99},
   bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de} } },


























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