Hi, Most of the web applications I work on are nothing more than front-ends to postgresql. I have used Perl (CGI), Java, C# and am now looking at Django. Each generation of frameworks lessens the pain of donig web-apps, but it still seems redundant. Does any one know of a framework where the database server (or a web/app server integrated with a DB server) serves web pages? The database contains the data-model; names of tables, names of attributes, their types, foreign key relationships among tables...that's A LOT of information. Sql query, views or stored procs could serve as 'reports' served off the data. Perhaps the only thing that needs to be outside a database is something that describes how the data is to be displayed (CSS). There could be some java/c#/python/ruby/whatever engine which takes all the information provided in the database and generate html/xhtml, default css, javascript validation, etc....but all that should be invisible to the user. Any one know of such a framework? (I'm asking this in pgsql because such a framework will have to be fairly closely linked to a database...and I mainly use pgsql).
