4 Implementing Web Applications with CM Information Integrator for Content and ODWEK
1.1 Overview
A Web application is a collection of programs and resources. Typically, a Web
application is designed to perform a specific task. A fundamental characteristic of
Web applications is that they use HTTP for their core communication protocol
and deliver Web-based information to the user. A simple Web application may
consist of static HTML pages and a Common Gateway Interface (CGI) interface
or PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor). PHP is a general-purpose scripting language
that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML.
Complex Web applications can consist of static HTML pages, XML, logos and
images, Web components such as Microso ...