iWebDB-Web site administration based on object-relational database technology

Since the emergence of the World Wide Web in the year 1990, the number of accessible Web servers, HTML pages, and thereby the amount of accessible data have increased dramatically. Consequently many people around the world are engaged in maintaining a Web server and its content. While creating HTML pages is getting more and more simple, the administration of a Web site is still a time consuming and demanding task. Available tools for Web Content Management (WCM) only cover some of the relevant aspects of the whole task; an integrated fully functional solution is missing. Therefore, Web administrators still have to cope with many problems, such as ensuring validity of available documents or keeping hyperlinks consistent. We present administrative components of iWebDB, an integrated WCM solution, based on object-relational database technology. By extending an object-relational database system (ORDBS) with WCM functionality, many tasks of WCM, such as validity checks and consistency checks for local hyperlinks, can be delegated to the DBS and thereby automated. Therefore, iWebDB achieves more effective and easier administration of a Web server and its content by exploiting the extensibility property of ORDBSs.