A Federated Database for Hypermedia Development for the WWW

Large sites on the WorldWide Web (WWW) are diicult to manage and maintain because of the numerous les and interrelated hyperlinks or URLs. Current tools tend to focus on producing Web pages rather than on this maintenance problem. We propose an architecture for development of WorldWide Web sites that uses various types of databases to manage the information content of the Web pages while using a modeling layer whose responsibilities are to retrieve the content from the databases and to manage the presentational and navigational aspects of the the Web site. Thus, new material can be added to the Web site by adding content to the databases and then running the tools in the modeling layer.