A hybird Notes/DB2 environment provides a requisition catalog on the Web. Client
browsers are connected to a GWA infrastructure including a first network dispatcher
and a virtual cluster of Domino.Go servers. The network dispatcher sprays out browser
requests among configured .nsf servers in virtual server cluster. Communications
from this virtual server cluster are, in turn, dispatched by a second network dispatcher
servers in a Domino cluster. External objects, primarily for a GUI, are served
in a .dfs and include graphic files, Java files, HTML images and net.data macros.
The catalog is built from supplier provided flat files. A front end is provided
for business logic and validation, as also is a relation database backend. HTML
forms are populated using relational database agents. A role table is used for
controlling access both to Notes code and DB2 data. Large amounts of data is quickly
transferred using an intermediate agent and window.