University of Houston
Department of Computer Science


In partial fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of
Master of Science


G. Wade Johnson
will defend his thesis

WSDL: An XML-Based Web Site Description Language




Abstract

When the World Wide Web first began, most web sites were small. They could be built and maintained by a small number of people. But the Web has been growing at an ever increasing rate. The number of large web sites is also growing. Many of these web sites are constantly being revised. As web sites grow larger and more time and resources are applied to them, it becomes obvious that the old, ad hoc method of design is not working. The Web Site Description Language (WSDL) uses XML to address page presentation and site structure. This web site description can be used on top of systems that use external content sources, such as databases, to build dynamic pages. The result is a system for generating flexible, maintainable, realistic web sites. Most importantly, the output from this system can be displayed by current browser technology, because it is pure HTML.




Date: Wednesday, October 25, 2000
Time: 11:30 AM
Place: 550-PGH



Faculty, students, and the general public are invited.
Thesis Advisor: Dr. Stephen Huang