Web-Box programs are lightning fast.

Sometimes dynamic Web-Box pages, generated from a database, can be faster than static SSI-HTML pages. Reason for this is the unique database design, which was developed to take advantage of the unique attributes of the Intel 486 memory page and caching properties.

Note: Fast execution on a server is not only nice, it also makes sure that your application's complexity stays as low as possible. Fast core execution speed can be replaced by nothing, not even a faster computer CPU.  
 

Multi-Platform

Most web applications today are single platform (ASP, MS SQL, MySQL, FrontPage, ISAPI), with the result most customers are locked into their platform and are not free to choose later.

Web-Box is multi-platform and does not use any proprietary technologies at the application level. (*1)  
 

Multi-Language Support

If you want to support more than one language, multilingual web-sites can save you a lot of time and money. You will avoid problems, such as some sites for some languages become out of date and have to be redone.  
 

Server Side Implementation

Because your programs stay on your server, your competition will not see how you solved what problem. You can also generate responses that work with very old browsers or with clients who disabled style sheets or Java. You can do some very interesting things - your imagination is the limit.  
 

Improved Security

In case you deal with data on the web, security is a huge concern. A full Web-Box system has 2 independent programs on the web server: A client CGI (or ISAPI) and an Application Server. Both programs can run under 2 different accounts, which means, that the CGI (accessible from the outside world) does not need to have the rights the application needs.

This is supported in Windows NT and Unix.  
 

Cost effective and strategic sound

We are a small software company, so we can get you the solution, the support, the license conditions and response time you need for your project. Our software is not subject to GPL.  
 

Improved synchronization

Sample: If you write to a file from a client, you have the problem of synchronization: Two CGIs might want to write to this one file at the same time. We know that most people do not care about this tricky issue and just explain the computer did a funny thing when they are confronted with a corrupted file.

But that's the way things happen: Ignoring synchronization produces corrupted files and programs in undefined state.

Sync problems are tricky and error-prone.

The best thing is to avoid them with the concept of Web-Box.  
 

One practical sample

You want to append one record to a logfile for each visitor of your web-site. That's the way to do it with Web-Box:

<H1>Welcome</H1>
<!--#
InitRequestBuffer();
request.s.FILE_NAME = "visitors";
request.s.MESSAGE = getenv("REMOTE_ADDR") + "\n";
request.ctrl.function = WRITE_LOG;
SendRequest();
-->

There are no sync issues involved. Clean design.

Interested? Please read on. There is more to come.

Click here to view the documention.  
 

Sample Sites / Pages

Click here to visit our Links page.
Click here to visit the WhiteRockMall.com, a Web-Box application.
Click here to visit the web-site of ASM Communications, a Web-Box / Web-Order-System application.

(*1) Web-Box uses a lot of system level calls that are specific to platforms. These functions are concentrated in Web-Box's system level routines. These routines are shielded from the application, so your application remains portable.