Now available at:
ftp://probe.nalusda.gov/pub/tools/acelib.tar.gz
This distribution contains files developed for integrating acedb
version 4 with perl and, in turn, the world wide web. Acedb 4, unlike
previous versions, has full client-server capability. The client code
has been linked into perl for direct interactive access to the
aceserver from perl scripts; this is Aceclient.pm (distributed with
ace 4). Acedb 4 also contains modifications for printing output in a
form directly readable by perl to provide access to the complete tree
structure of objects, and methods for manipulating these trees are
provided in Aceobj.pm. Combining these two features is a module
(AceWWW.pm) for formatting acedb objects for the World Wide Web. The
actual cgi-bin scripts and accessory library routines are also
included, though these contain some AGIS-specific information.
The files included are:
Aceobj.pm perl module for accessing acedb objects
AceWWW.pm perl module for WWW formatting
htmllib.pl perl library with html routines, used by AceWWW.pm
dbinfo.pl template for database-specific information, for WWW
hostinfo.pl template for specifying host information, for WWW
markup/
example.emr examples of external markup rules, used by AceWWW.pm
standard_urls examples of generic urls used for external markup by
AceWWW.pm
cgi-bin/ for WWW interface
model view models
dbrun main WWW interface
pacecl.pl example perl script: interactive client
cnttag.pl example perl script: count tags used in a database
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-JD Barnett (jbarnett at nalusda.gov)
