[Info-vax] New OpenVMS hosted web site

[Bob Gezelter]

On Nov 3, 1:40 pm, "Jeffrey H. Coffield"
<jeff... at digitalsynergyinc.com> wrote:
> I have a new web site that is hosted on OpenVMS. It is:
>
>        http://www.keepmeuptodate.net
>
> It's far from finished (but when is a program or web site finished?) but
> it's a start. The site allows you to register the technical books you
> have and will send notifications when a new edition is available. Also
> you can build a list of favorite authors, keep track of books you have
> read and order the ones you haven't.
>
> The html pages are all static pages that use JQuery to implement a REST
> architecture so the active part of the server only gets http posts and
> only returns XML. The server has two tiers with the first tier handling
> static content and the second tier handling RMS database access and XML
> generation. The two tiers are connected by FastCGI and both tiers are
> written in OpenVMS Basic and take full advantage of OpenVMS cluster
> capabilities.
>
> Access to Amazon data is provided thru a separate gateway written in
> Java which was developed in NetBeans based on code from Amazon and runs
> as a separate process on OpenVMS.
>
> Again, the site is far from finished and I welcome all comments and
> suggestions on how to improve it.
>
> Jeff Coffieldhttp://www.digitalsynergyinc.com

Jeff,

My compliments.

Just a small thought along the lines of OpenVMS promotion. Perhaps
putting the OpenVMS swoosh logo on the lower right hand corner of the
page so people recognize it as an OpenVMS powered www site.

- Bob Gezelter, http://www.rlgsc.com