The Web DataWindow works with a server component hosted in:
EAServer
Microsoft Transaction Server
COM+
The Web DataWindow retrieves and manipulates data from your enterprise database. When you create a DataWindow object, you can set properties that determine how the DataWindow object appears in the browser. The server component can generate XML, XSLT, and CSS (with subsequent transformation to XHTML), XHTML directly, or HTML for your DataWindow object.
When you set up EAServer, the DataWindow HTMLGenerator100 is installed for you as a default server component. It contains many methods that you can display on the Components tab of the System Tree and invoke in server-side method calls.
You can also create a custom DataWindow server component and deploy it to your component server for greater flexibility. However, if your custom component does not implement the HTMLGenerator100 interface, you cannot use the Sybase Web DataWindow DTC. (You must manually code the DataWindow connection information in a server script on your page.)
You can use the Web DataWindow Container component wizard to create a custom component that implements the HTMLGenerator100 interface. The main advantage of the wizard-created component is that it deploys all the DataWindow objects in a selected target with the connection information encoded in the component.
For information on creating and deploying a custom server component or a Web DataWindow Container component, see the DataWindow Programmer’s Guide. For information on DataWindow methods, see the DataWindow Reference.
