Developing Web Databases with Tango Enterprise
By Rick Dobson
One of the more challenging tasks for Web developers is shoveling data to browsers through a Web server from backend database servers. Accomplishing this has traditionally involved expensive, high-end tools coupled with CGI programming expertise. However, tools like Tango Enterprise have changed the rules. Now, if you can use a graphical user interface, you can build Web-database applications.
This article takes a close-up look at the most recent version of
Tango Enterprise. I'll look at the Tango architecture and the new enhancements introduced in version 3. I'll also describe my experiences with setup and installation and walk through the steps for creating a classic database almost exclusively without programming. (I do break down and throw in a dash of HTML, but this is only for cosmetics.) Finally, I'll show how you can customize the appearance of your Web database applications from within the Tango environment.
Two Tango Architectures
There are two distinct components of Tango Enterprise: Tango Development Studio and the Tango Application Server. Development Studio allows you to create query documents that are accessible through the browser. The Tango editor's user interface makes this product a standout among Web database-development tools. A friendly graphical user interface provides a rapid application-development environment.
