Date: Nov. 13, 1998
Link: http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/formula/datacraft
Source Author or Organization: IBM (alphaWorks)

Excerpted from the web site: (IBM's DataCraft) "provides an XML view of databases and enables publishing XML forms to the Web."

"The two ongoing major initiatives by the W3C is the RDF (Resource Description Framework) and XML (eXtensible Markup Language) which are becoming standards for information exchange between peer data stores, and between client visualization tools and data servers. DataCraft is an application generation tool targeted for RDF/XML applications in the context of Web-commerce applications."

"DataCraft, a facility capable of generating visual query skeletons and running the queries against DB2, is an excellent tool for Web-Database application generation using XML. DataCraft provides client tools visually navigating resource schema, and query language building queries visually from the schema based on XML and RDF. DataCraft uses RDF and XML to describe data collection structures and to exchange resource schema and query between the server and client."

"DataCraft is written in JAVA and can be accessed by web browsers. Currently, DataCraft supports relational data servers such as IBM DB2 or Microsoft Access."