In this article we describe how combining WML, ColdFusion, and the Fusebox
methodology enables wireless data updates of the data- base of a working
e-commerce Web site. To provide some context, we begin with a discussion of
what this Web site is and what it does.
NetLook, Inc., is a client of our company, Applied Digital Solutions' Oracle
Practice. Its Web site (www.netlook.com) is designed to advertise used cars
and help people find jobs (see Figures 1 and 2). NetLook lives in a cluster
environment of two NT servers, each running IIS, and ColdFusion Server. These
servers also hold the file system that contains auto, job, and customer files
(e.g., auto pictures and customer logos).
Heavily involved with multimedia, NetLook presents information via a
dedicated cable television station and weekly hard copy publications, as well
as over the Internet.
One of NetLook's ... (more)