EsMS: A Database-Driven E-service Management System

We have built a database-driven e-service management system prototype called EsMS. The key idea is separating the management of e-service data from their visual representation. EsMS provides a template language EsHTML for specifying a web page’s representation. This language also serves as the language to compose and incorporate e-services from existing e-services, which might be provided by other companies. E-service data are stored in the database, and the schema management provides the flexibility of delivering different e-services within the same framework. Roles are defined to facilitate the close cooperation of template designers, content editors, and e-service programmers. In this paper, we describe the architecture of the system and how our declarative template language EsHTML can be used to achieve these ideas.