Tom Otvos

Tango 2000 is a singularly powerful and easy-to-use tool for creating dynamic, intelligent Web sites that are integrated with popular database systems. Unlike other application servers that take a simplistic "mail-merge" or page-centric approach to page generation, Tango 2000 uses a visual programming metaphor that enables users to create powerful Web applications in record time without having to be programming gurus. A particularly powerful feature of Tango 2000 is its support of XML. In basic terms, XML is supported as a first-class application data type, enabling the developer to create XML (or, more precisely, DOM) variables that represent complex hierarchical data structures and access, manipulate and stream them with ease. An important point is that any XML structure may be used; the developer isn't limited to a single DTD (such as WDDX). A good question at thi... (more)