University of Houston
Department of Computer Science
In partial fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of
Master of Science
Shaolong Wu
will defend his thesis
A Framework for Display of Information from a Data Source
Abstract
The complexity and new technologies used in current Web Publishing requires expensive
resources to develop and maintain a web site. Our goal is to find a method to simplify this
process. We have developed a framework to display information from a XML data source.
In our framework, all the processes including retrieving the XML data from the database,
transforming the data into HTML and displaying the resulting HTML occur on the client
machine. The framework is composed of several components and Java objects. An input
Template, which must follow a Schema, defines which data to display and how to display
it. From the Template, the Query and an XSL Stylesheet is automatically generated.
Using this Query, the XML data is then retrieved, and then transformed into HTML using
the Stylesheet. The only input from the user is the Template, which can be generated
using a tool provided.
Some of the benefits the framework provides are ease of use and maintenance, scalability
and performance. The users do not have to specify any database access queries; do not
have to write a servlet, JSP or ASP code. They simply need to specify their needs in
XML format. The scalability and performance of the web server is improved since the
transformation is done on the client side using Java based tools.
Date: Friday, November 22, 2002
Time: 3:00 PM
Place: 550-PGH
Faculty, students, and the general public are invited.
Thesis Advisor: Dr. Venkat Subramaniam