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J Am Med Inform Assoc 2000;7:343-356 doi:10.1136/jamia.2000.0070343
  • The Practice of Informatics
  • Application of Information Technology

WebEAV

Automatic Metadata-driven Generation of Web Interfaces to Entity-Attribute-Value Databases

  1. Prakash M Nadkarni,
  2. Cynthia M Brandt,
  3. Luis Marenco
  1. Affiliation of the authors: Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
  1. Correspondence and reprints: Prakash M. Nadkarni, MD, Center for Medical Informatics, Yale University School of Medicine, P.O. Box 208009, New Haven, CT 06520-8009; e-mail: 〈prakash.nadkarni{at}yale.edu〉
  • Received 1 October 1999
  • Accepted 2 February 2000

Abstract

The task of creating and maintaining a front end to a large institutional entity-attribute-value (EAV) database can be cumbersome when using traditional client-server technology. Switching to Web technology as a delivery vehicle solves some of these problems but introduces others. In particular, Web development environments tend to be primitive, and many features that client-server developers take for granted are missing. WebEAV is a generic framework for Web development that is intended to streamline the process of Web application development for databases having a significant EAV component. It also addresses some challenging user interface issues that arise when any complex system is created. The authors describe the architecture of WebEAV and provide an overview of its features with suitable examples.

Footnotes

  • This work was supported by grant U01-CA-78266 from the National Cancer Institute.

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