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金融体制、融资约束与投资——来自OECD的实证分析R．SemenovDepartment of Economics，University of Nijmegen，Nijmegen（荷兰内梅亨大学，经济学院）这篇论文考查了OECD的11个国家中现金流量对企业投资的影响.我们发现不同国家之间投资对企业内部可获取资金的敏感性具有显著差异,并且银企之间具有明显的紧密关系的国家的敏感性比银企之间具有公平关系的国家的低.同时，我们发现融资约束与整体金融发展指标不存在关系.我们的结论与资本市场信息和激励问题对企业投资具有重要作用这种观点一致，并且紧密的银企关系会减少这些问题从而增加企业获取外部融资的渠道。
一、引言各个国家的企业在显著不同的金融体制下运行。
金融发展水平的差别(例如，相对GDP的信用额度和相对GDP的相应股票市场的资本化程度），在所有者和管理者关系、企业和债权人的模式中，企业控制的市场活动水平可以很好地被记录.在完美资本市场,对于具有正的净现值投资机会的企业将一直获得资金。
然而，经济理论表明市场摩擦，诸如信息不对称和激励问题会使获得外部资本更加昂贵，并且具有盈利投资机会的企业不一定能够获取所需资本.这表明融资要素，例如内部产生资金数量、新债务和权益的可得性，共同决定了企业的投资决策.现今已经有大量考查外部资金可得性对投资决策的影响的实证资料（可参考，例如Fazzari（1998）、 Hoshi(1991)、 Chapman（1996）、Samuel(1998））.大多数研究结果表明金融变量例如现金流量有助于解释企业的投资水平。
这项研究结果解释表明企业投资受限于外部资金的可得性。
很多模型强调运行正常的金融中介和金融市场有助于改善信息不对称和交易成本，减缓不对称问题,从而促使储蓄资金投着长期和高回报的项目,并且提高资源的有效配置（参看Levine（1997)的评论文章）。
因而我们预期用于更加发达的金融体制的国家的企业将更容易获得外部融资.几位学者已经指出建立企业和金融中介机构可进一步缓解金融市场摩擦。
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A Design and Implementation of Active NetworkSocket ProgrammingK.L. Eddie Law, Roy LeungThe Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical and Computer EngineeringUniversity of TorontoToronto, Canadaeddie@, roy.leung@utoronto.caAbstract—The concept of programmable nodes and active networks introduces programmability into communication networks. Code and data can be sent and modified on their ways to destinations. Recently, various research groups have designed and implemented their own design platforms. Each design has its own benefits and drawbacks. Moreover, there exists an interoperability problem among platforms. As a result, we introduce a concept that is similar to the network socket programming. We intentionally establish a set of simple interfaces for programming active applications. This set of interfaces, known as Active Network Socket Programming (ANSP), will be working on top of all other execution environments in future. Therefore, the ANSP offers a concept that is similar to “write once, run everywhere.” It is an open programming model that active applications can work on all execution environments. It solves the heterogeneity within active networks. This is especially useful when active applications need to access all regions within a heterogeneous network to deploy special service at critical points or to monitor the performance of the entire networks. Instead of introducing a new platform, our approach provides a thin, transparent layer on top of existing environments that can be easily installed for all active applications.Keywords-active networks; application programming interface; active network socket programming;I. I NTRODUCTIONIn 1990, Clark and Tennenhouse [1] proposed a design framework for introducing new network protocols for the Internet. Since the publication of that position paper, active network design framework [2, 3, 10] has slowly taken shape in the late 1990s. The active network paradigm allows program code and data to be delivered simultaneously on the Internet. Moreover, they may get executed and modified on their ways to their destinations. At the moment, there is a global active network backbone, the ABone, for experiments on active networks. Apart from the immaturity of the executing platform, the primary hindrance on the deployment of active networks on the Internet is more on the commercially related issues. For example, a vendor may hesitate to allow network routers to run some unknown programs that may affect their expected routing performance. As a result, alternatives were proposed to allow active network concept to operate on the Internet, such as the application layer active networking (ALAN) project [4] from the European research community. In the ALAN project, there are active server systems located at different places in the networks and active applications are allowed to run in these servers at the application layer. Another potential approach from the network service provider is to offer active network service as the premium service class in the networks. This service class should provide the best Quality of Service (QoS), and allow the access of computing facility in routers. With this approach, the network service providers can create a new source of income.The research in active networks has been progressing steadily. Since active networks introduce programmability on the Internet, appropriate executing platforms for the active applications to execute should be established. These operating platforms are known as execution environments (EEs) and a few of them have been created, e.g., the Active Signaling Protocol (ASP) [12] and the Active Network Transport System (ANTS) [11]. Hence, different active applications can be implemented to test the active networking concept.With these EEs, some experiments have been carried out to examine the active network concept, for example, the mobile networks [5], web proxies [6], and multicast routers [7]. Active networks introduce a lot of program flexibility and extensibility in networks. Several research groups have proposed various designs of execution environments to offer network computation within routers. Their performance and potential benefits to existing infrastructure are being evaluated [8, 9]. Unfortunately, they seldom concern the interoperability problems when the active networks consist of multiple execution environments. For example, there are three EEs in ABone. Active applications written for one particular EE cannot be operated on other platforms. This introduces another problem of resources partitioning for different EEs to operate. Moreover, there are always some critical network applications that need to run under all network routers, such as collecting information and deploying service at critical points to monitor the networks.In this paper, a framework known as Active Network Socket Programming (ANSP) model is proposed to work with all EEs. It offers the following primary objectives.• One single programming interface is introduced for writing active applications.• Since ANSP offers the programming interface, the design of EE can be made independent of the ANSP.This enables a transparency in developing andenhancing future execution environments.• ANSP addresses the interoperability issues among different execution environments.• Through the design of ANSP, the pros and cons of different EEs will be gained. This may help design abetter EE with improved performance in future.The primary objective of the ANSP is to enable all active applications that are written in ANSP can operate in the ABone testbed . While the proposed ANSP framework is essential in unifying the network environments, we believe that the availability of different environments is beneficial in the development of a better execution environment in future. ANSP is not intended to replace all existing environments, but to enable the studies of new network services which are orthogonal to the designs of execution environments. Therefore, ANSP is designed to be a thin and transparent layer on top of all execution environments. Currently, its deployment relies on automatic code loading with the underlying environments. As a result, the deployment of ANSP at a router is optional and does not require any change to the execution environments.II. D ESIGN I SSUES ON ANSPThe ANSP unifies existing programming interfaces among all EEs. Conceptually, the design of ANSP is similar to the middleware design that offers proper translation mechanisms to different EEs. The provisioning of a unified interface is only one part of the whole ANSP platform. There are many other issues that need to be considered. Apart from translating a set of programming interfaces to other executable calls in different EEs, there are other design issues that should be covered, e.g., • a unified thread library handles thread operations regardless of the thread libraries used in the EEs;• a global soft-store allows information sharing among capsules that may execute over different environmentsat a given router;• a unified addressing scheme used across different environments; more importantly, a routing informationexchange mechanism should be designed across EEs toobtain a global view of the unified networks;• a programming model that should be independent to any programming languages in active networks;• and finally, a translation mechanism to hide the heterogeneity of capsule header structures.A. Heterogeneity in programming modelEach execution environment provides various abstractions for its services and resources in the form of program calls. The model consists of a set of well-defined components, each of them has its own programming interfaces. For the abstractions, capsule-based programming model [10] is the most popular design in active networks. It is used in ANTS [11] and ASP [12], and they are being supported in ABone. Although they are developed based on the same capsule model, their respective components and interfaces are different. Therefore, programs written in one EE cannot run in anther EE. The conceptual views of the programming models in ANTS and ASP are shown in Figure 1.There are three distinct components in ANTS: application, capsule, and execution environment. There exist user interfaces for the active applications at only the source and destination routers. Then the users can specify their customized actions to the networks. According to the program function, the applications send one or more capsules to carry out the operations. Both applications and capsules operate on top of an execution environment that exports an interface to its internal programming resources. Capsule executes its program at each router it has visited. When it arrives at its destination, the application at destination may either reply it with another capsule or presents this arrival event to the user. One drawback with ANTS is that it only allows “bootstrap” application.Figure 1. Programming Models in ASP and ANTS.In contrast, ASP does not limit its users to run “bootstrap” applications. Its program interfaces are different from ANTS, but there are also has three components in ASP: application client, environment, and AAContext. The application client can run on active or non-active host. It can start an active application by simply sending a request message to the EE. The client presents information to users and allows its users to trigger actions at a nearby active router. AAContext is the core of the network service and its specification is divided into two parts. One part specifies its actions at its source and destination routers. Its role is similar to that of the application in ANTS, except that it does not provide a direct interface with the user. The other part defines its actions when it runs inside the active networks and it is similar to the functional behaviors of a capsule in ANTS.In order to deal with the heterogeneity of these two models, ANSP needs to introduce a new set of programming interfaces and map its interfaces and execution model to those within the routers’ EEs.B. Unified Thread LibraryEach execution environment must ensure the isolation of instance executions, so they do not affect each other or accessThe authors appreciate the Nortel Institute for Telecommunications (NIT) at the University of Toronto to allow them to access the computing facilitiesothers’ information. There are various ways to enforce the access control. One simple way is to have one virtual machine for one instance of active applications. This relies on the security design in the virtual machines to isolate services. ANTS is one example that is using this method. Nevertheless, the use of multiple virtual machines requires relatively large amount of resources and may be inefficient in some cases. Therefore, certain environments, such as ASP, allow network services to run within a virtual machine but restrict the use of their services to a limited set of libraries in their packages. For instance, ASP provides its thread library to enforce access control. Because of the differences in these types of thread mechanism, ANSP devises a new thread library to allow uniform accesses to different thread mechanisms.C. Soft-StoreSoft-store allows capsule to insert and retrieve information at a router, thus allowing more than one capsules to exchange information within a network. However, problem arises when a network service can execute under different environments within a router. The problem occurs especially when a network service inserts its soft-store information in one environment and retrieves its data at a later time in another environment at the same router. Due to the fact that execution environments are not allowed to exchange information, the network service cannot retrieve its previous data. Therefore, our ANSP framework needs to take into account of this problem and provides soft-store mechanism that allows universal access of its data at each router.D. Global View of a Unified NetworkWhen an active application is written with ANSP, it can execute on different environment seamlessly. The previously smaller and partitioned networks based on different EEs can now be merging into one large active network. It is then necessary to advise the network topology across the networks. However, different execution environments have different addressing schemes and proprietary routing protocols. In order to merge these partitions together, ANSP must provide a new unified addressing scheme. This new scheme should be interpretable by any environments through appropriate translations with the ANSP. Upon defining the new addressing scheme, a new routing protocol should be designed to operate among environments to exchange topology information. This allows each environment in a network to have a complete view of its network topology.E. Language-Independent ModelExecution environment can be programmed in any programming language. One of the most commonly used languages is Java [13] due to its dynamic code loading capability. In fact, both ANTS and ASP are developed in Java. Nevertheless, the active network architecture shown in Figure 2 does not restrict the use of additional environments that are developed in other languages. For instance, the active network daemon, anted, in Abone provides a workspace to execute multiple execution environments within a router. PLAN, for example, is implemented in Ocaml that will be deployable on ABone in future. Although the current active network is designed to deploy multiple environments that can be in any programming languages, there lacks the tool to allow active applications to run seamlessly upon these environments. Hence, one of the issues that ANSP needs to address is to design a programming model that can work with different programming languages. Although our current prototype only considers ANTS and ASP in its design, PLAN will be the next target to address the programming language issue and to improve the design of ANSP.Figure 2. ANSP Framework Model.F. Heterogeneity of Capsule Header StructureThe structures of the capsule headers are different in different EEs. They carries capsule-related information, for example, the capsule types, sources and destinations. This information is important when certain decision needs to be made within its target environment. A unified model should allow its program code to be executed on different environments. However, the capsule header prevents different environments to interpret its information successfully. Therefore, ANSP should carry out appropriate translation to the header information before the target environment receives this capsule.III. ANSP P ROGRAMMING M ODELWe have outlined the design issues encountered with the ANSP. In the following, the design of the programming model in ANSP will be discussed. This proposed framework provides a set of unified programming interfaces that allows active applications to work on all execution environments. The framework is shown in Figure 2. It is composed of two layers integrated within the active network architecture. These two layers can operate independently without the other layer. The upper layer provides a unified programming model to active applications. The lower layer provides appropriate translation procedure to the ANSP applications when it is processed by different environments. This service is necessary because each environment has its own header definition.The ANSP framework provides a set of programming calls which are abstractions of ANSP services and resources. A capsule-based model is used for ANSP, and it is currently extended to map to other capsule-based models used in ANTSand ASP. The mapping possibility to other models remains as our future works. Hence, the mapping technique in ANSP allows any ANSP applications to access the same programming resources in different environments through a single set of interfaces. The mapping has to be done in a consistent and transparent manner. Therefore, the ANSP appears as an execution environment that provides a complete set of functionalities to active applications. While in fact, it is an overlay structure that makes use of the services provided from the underlying environments. In the following, the high-level functional descriptions of the ANSP model are described. Then, the implementations will be discussed. The ANSP programming model is based upon the interactions between four components: application client , application stub , capsule , and active service base.Figure 3. Information Flow with the ANSP.•Application Client : In a typical scenario, an active application requires some means to present information to its users, e.g., the state of the networks. A graphical user interface (GUI) is designed to operate with the application client if the ANSP runs on a non-active host.•Application Stub : When an application starts, it activates the application client to create a new instance of application stub at its near-by active node. There are two responsibilities for the application stub. One of them is to receive users’ instructions from the application client. Another one is to receive incoming capsules from networks and to perform appropriate actions. Typically, there are two types of actions, thatare, to reply or relay in capsules through the networks, or to notify the users regarding the incoming capsule. •Capsule : An active application may contain several capsule types. Each of them carries program code (also referred to as forwarding routine). Since the application defines a protocol to specify the interactions among capsules as well as the application stubs. Every capsule executes its forwarding routine at each router it visits along the path between the source and destination.•Active Service Base : An active service base is designed to export routers’ environments’ services and execute program calls from application stubs and capsules from different EEs. The base is loaded automatically at each router whenever a capsule arrives.The interactions among components within ANSP are shown in Figure 3. The designs of some key components in the ANSP will be discussed in the following subsections. A. Capsule (ANSPCapsule)ANSPXdr decode () ANSPXdr encode () int length ()Boolean execute ()New types of capsule are created by extending the abstract class ANSPCapsule . New extensions are required to define their own forwarding routines as well as their serialization procedures. These methods are indicated below:The execution of a capsule in ANSP is listed below. It is similar to the process in ANTS.1. A capsule is in serial binary representation before it issent to the network. When an active router receives a byte sequence, it invokes decode() to convert the sequence into a capsule. 2. The router invokes the forwarding routine of thecapsule, execute(). 3. When the capsule has finished its job and forwardsitself to its next hop by calling send(), this call implicitly invokes encode() to convert the capsule into a new serial byte representation. length() isused inside the call of encode() to determine the length of the resulting byte sequence. ANSP provides a XDR library called ANSPXdr to ease the jobs of encoding and decoding.B. Active Service Base (ANSPBase)In an active node, the Active Service Base provides a unified interface to export the available resources in EEs for the rest of the ANSP components. The services may include thread management, node query, and soft-store operation, as shown in Table 1.TABLE I. ACTIVE SERVICE BASE FUNCTION CALLSFunction Definition Descriptionboolean send (Capsule, Address) Transmit a capsule towards its destination using the routing table of theunderlying environment.ANSPAddress getLocalHost () Return address of the local host as an ANSPAddress structure. This isuseful when a capsule wants to check its current location.boolean isLocal (ANSPAddress) Return true if its input argument matches the local host’s address andreturn false otherwise.createThread () Create a new thread that is a class ofANSPThreadInterface (discussed later in Section VIA “Unified Thread Abstraction”).putSStore (key, Object) Object getSStore (key) removeSStore (key)The soft-store operations are provided by putSStore(), getSSTore(), and removeSStore(), and they put, retrieve, and remove data respectively. forName (PathName) Supported in ANSP to retrieve a classobject corresponding to the given path name in its argument. This code retrieval may rely on the code loading mechanism in the environment whennecessary.C. Application Client (ANSPClient)boolean start (args[])boolean start (args[],runningEEs) boolean start (args[],startClient)boolean start (args[],startClient, runningEE)Application Client is an interface between users and the nearby active source router. It does the following responsibilities.1. Code registration: It may be necessary to specify thelocation and name of the application code in some execution environments, e.g., ANTS. 2. Application initialization: It includes selecting anexecution environment to execute the application among those are available at the source router. Each active application can create an application client instance by extending the abstract class, ANSPClient . The extension inherits a method, start(), to automatically handle both the registration and initialization processes. All overloaded versions of start() accept a list of arguments, args , that are passed to the application stub during its initialization. An optional argument called runningEEs allows an application client to select a particular set of environment variables, specified by a list of standardized numerical environment ID, the ANEP ID, to perform code registration. If this argument is not specified, the default setting can only include ANTS and ASP. D. Application Stub (ANSPApplication)receive (ANSPCapsule)Application stubs reside at the source and destination routers to initialize the ANSP application after the application clients complete the initialization and registration processes. It is responsible for receiving and serving capsules from the networks as well as actions requested from the clients. A new instance is created by extending the application client abstract class, ANSPApplication . This extension includes the definition of a handling routine called receive(), which is invoked when a stub receives a new capsule.IV. ANSP E XAMPLE : T RACE -R OUTEA testbed has been created to verify the design correctnessof ANSP in heterogeneous environments. There are three types of router setting on this testbed:1. Router that contains ANTS and a ANSP daemonrunning on behalf of ASP; 2. Router that contains ASP and a ANSP daemon thatruns on behalf of ANTS; 3. Router that contains both ASP and ANTS.The prototype is written in Java [11] with a traceroute testing program. The program records the execution environments of all intermediate routers that it has visited between the source and destination. It also measures the RTT between them. Figure 4 shows the GUI from the application client, and it finds three execution environments along the path: ASP, ANTS, and ASP. The execution sequence of the traceroute program is shown in Figure 5.Figure 4. The GUI for the TRACEROUTE Program.The TraceCapsule program code is created byextending the ANSPCapsule abstract class. When execute() starts, it checks the Boolean value of returning to determine if it is returning from the destination. It is set to true if TraceCapsule is traveling back to the source router; otherwise it is false . When traveling towards the destination, TraceCapsule keeps track of the environments and addresses of the routers it has visited in two arrays, path and trace , respectively. When it arrives at a new router, it calls addHop() to append the router address and its environment to these two arrays. When it finally arrives at the destination, it sets returning to false and forwards itself back to the source by calling send().When it returns to source, it invokes deliverToApp() to deliver itself to the application stub that has been running at the source. TraceCapsule carries information in its data field through the networks by executing encode() and decode(), which encapsulates and de-capsulates its data using External Data Representation (XDR) respectively. The syntax of ANSP XDR follows the syntax of XDR library from ANTS. length() in TraceCapsule returns the data length, or it can be calculated by using the primitive types in the XDRlibrary.Figure 5. Flow of the TRACEROUTE Capsules.V. 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数据库毕业设计---外文翻译
附录附录A: 外文资料翻译－原文部分：CUSTOMER TARGETTINGThe earliest determinant of success in the development of a profitable card scheme will lie in the quality of applicants that are attracted by the marketing effort. Not only must there be sufficient creditworthy applicants to avoid fruitless and expensive application processing, but it is critical that the overall mix of new accounts meets the standard necessary to ensure ultimate profitability. For example, the marketing initiatives may attract sufficient volume of applicants that are assessed as above the scorecard cut-off, but the proportion of acceptances in the upper bands may be insufficient to deliver the level of profit and lesser bad debt required to achieve the financial objectives of the scheme.This chapter considers the range of data sources available to support the development of a credit card scheme and the tools that can be applied to maximize the flow of applications from the required categories.Data availabilityThe data that makes up the ingredients from which marketing campaigns can be constructed can come from many diverse sources. Typically, it will fall into four categories:1 the national or regional register of voters;2 the national or regional register of court judgments that records the outcomeof creditor-debtor legislation;3 any national or regional pooled information showing the credit history of clients of the participating lenders; and4 commercially compiled data including and culled from name and address lists, survey results and other market analysis data, e.g. neighborhoods and lifestyle categorization through geo-demographic information systems.The availability and quality of this data will vary from country to country and bureau to bureau.Availability is not only governed by the extent to which the responsible agency has undertaken to record it, but also by the feasibility of accessing the data and the extent (if any) to which local consumer legislation or other considerations (e.g. religious principles) will allow it to be used. Other limitations on the use of available data may lie in the simple impossibility or expense of accessing the information sources, perhaps because necessary consumer consent for divulgence has been withheld or because the records are not yet stored electronically.The local credit information bureaux will be able to provide guidance on all of these matters, as will many local trade or professional associations or the relevant government departments.Data segmentation and AnalysesThe following remarks deal with the ways in which lawfully obtained data may then be processed and analyzed in order to maximize its value as the basis of a marketing prospect list. Examples of the types and uses of data that will play a role in the credit decision area are discussed later in the chapter, within the context of application processing.The key categories into which prospects may be segmented include lifestyle, propensity to purchase specific products (financial or otherwise) and levels of risk. The leading international information bureaux will be able to provide segmentation systems that are able to correlate each of these data categories to provide meaningful prospect lists in rank order. Additionally, many bureaux will have the capability to further enhance the strength and value of the data. Through the selective purchasing of data from bona fide market sources, and by overlaying generic factors deduced from the analysis of the broad mass of industry information that routinely passes through their systems, the best international operators are now able to offer marketing and credit information support that can add significantly to the quality of new applicants.The importance of the role and standard of this data in influencing the quality of the target population for mailings, etc. should not be underestimated. Information that is dated or inaccurate may not only lead a marketer and the organization into embarrassment and damage their reputations, but it will also open the credit card scheme to applicants from outside either the target sector or ,worse still, applicants outside the lender’s view of an acceptable credit risk.From this, it follows that you should seek to use an information bureau whose business principles and operating practices comply with the highest levels of both competence and integrity.Developing the prospect databaseThis is the process by which the raw data streams are brought together and subjected to progressive refinement, with the output representing the refined base from which prospecting can begin in earnest. A wide experience-often across many different markets and countries-in the sourcing, handling and analysis of data inevitably improves the quality of the ideas and systems that a bureau can offer for the development of the prospect database.In summary, the typical shape of the service available from the very best bureaux will support a process that runs as follows:1.collect and consolidate all data to be screened for inclusion;2.merge the various streams;3.sort and classify the data by market and credit categories;4.screen the date using predetermined marketing and credit criteria; and5.consolidate and output the refined list.Bureaux will charge for the use of their expertise and systems.Therefore, consideration should be given to the volumes of data that are to be processed and the costs involved at each stage. The most cost-effective approach to constructing prospect databases only undertakes the lowest-cost screening process within the earlier stages. The more expensive screening processes are not employed until the mass of the data has been reduced by earlier filtering.It is impossible to be prescriptive about the range and levels of service that are available, but reference to one of the major bureaux operating in the region could certainly be a good starting point.Campaign Management and AnalysisAgain, this is an area where excellent support is available from the best-of-breed bureaux. They will provide both the operational support and software capabilities to mount, monitor and analyse your marketing campaign, should you so wish. Their depth of experience and capabilities in the credit sector will often open up income: cost possibilities from the solicitation exercise that would not otherwise be available to the new entrant.The First Important Applications of DBMS’sData items include names and addresses of customers, accounts, loans and their balance, and the connection between customers and their accounts and loans, e.g., who has signature authority over which accounts. Queries for account balances are common, but far more common are modifications representing a single payment from or deposit to an account.As with the airline reservation system, we expect that many tellers and customers (through ATM machines) will be querying and modifying the bank’s data at once. It is vital that simultaneous accesses to an account not cause the effect of an ATM transaction to be lost. Failures cannot be tolerated. For example, once the money has been ejected from an ATM machine ,the bank must record the debit, even if the power immediately fails. On the other hand, it is not permissible for the bank to record the debit and then not deliver the money because the power fails. The proper way to handle this operation is far from obvious and can be regarded as one of the significant achievements in DBMS architecture.Database system changed significantly. Codd proposed that database system should present the user with a view of data organized as tables called relations. Behindthe scenes, there might be a complex data structure that allowed rapid response to a variety of queries. But unlike the user of earlier database systems, the user of a relational system would not be concerned with storage structure. Queries could be expressed in a very high level language, which greatly increased the efficiency of database programmers. Relations are tables. Their columns are headed by attributes.Client –Server ArchitectureMany varieties of modern software use a client-server architecture, in which requests by one process (the client ) are sent to another process (the server) for execution. Database systems are no exception, and it is common to divide the work of the components shown into a server process and one or more client processes.In the simplest client/server architecture, the entire DBMS is a server, except for the query interfaces that the user and send queries or other commands across to the server. For example, relational systems generally use the SQL language for representing requests from the client to the server. The database server then sends the answer, in the form of a table or relation, back to client. The relationship between client and server can get more complex, especially when answers are extremely large. We shall have more to say about this matter in section 1.3.3. there is also a trend to put more work in the client, since the server will be a bottleneck if there are many simultaneous database users.附录B: 外文资料翻译－译文部分：客户目标：最早判断发展可收益卡的成功性是在于受市场影响的被吸引的申请人的质量。
毕业设计外文文献翻译(原文+译文)
Environmental problems caused by Istanbul subway excavation and suggestionsfor remediation伊斯坦布尔地铁开挖引起的环境问题及补救建议Ibrahim Ocak Abstract：Many environmental problems caused by subway excavations have inevitably become an important point in city life. These problems can be categorized as transporting and stocking of excavated material, traffic jams, noise, vibrations, piles of dust mud and lack of supplies. Although these problems cause many difficulties,the most pressing for a big city like Istanbul is excava tion,since other listed difficulties result from it. Moreover, these problems are environmentally and regionally restricted to the period over which construction projects are underway and disappear when construction is finished. Currently, in Istanbul, there are nine subway construction projects in operation, covering approximately 73 km in length; over 200 km to be constructed in the near future. The amount of material excavated from ongoing construction projects covers approximately 12 million m3. In this study, problems—primarily, the problem with excavation waste(EW)—caused by subway excavation are analyzed and suggestions for remediation are offered.摘要：许多地铁开挖引起的环境问题不可避免地成为城市生活的重要部分。
毕业设计外文资料翻译sc-pdf
毕业设计外文资料翻译题目甲醇氧化生产甲醛的银催化剂改性学院化学化工学院专业化学工程与工艺班级0803学生许继盟学号20080207167指导教师倪献智二〇一二年三月十五日Catalysts Today, 1996, (28): 239-244.甲醇氧化生产甲醛的银催化剂的改性A.N.Pestryakov摘 要 银催化剂的性能可用Zr ，La ， Rb ，C s 的氧化物改性，改性后的银催化剂的物化性能和催化性能已在甲醇的选择性氧化工艺中研究过，甲醇氧化制甲醛工艺中，质量分数为1%-10%的改性添加物会改变载体银的有效电荷及氧化还原性能、金属分散度和其表面扩散、催化剂表面酸度及结焦程度。
当银催化性能改变时，改性物主要影响催化剂活性位（++δn Ag Ag）。
关键词 银催化剂；甲醇氧化为甲醛 1 简介甲醇选择性氧化生产甲醛工艺中使用大量的载体银催化剂[1-3]。
采用不同的非有机添加物对银催化剂进行改性是提高其性能的最有前景的方法之一。
在银催化剂发现之后，人们致力于对其进行改进，以达到提高其催化活性和寿命，降低银使用量和扩展其工艺操作条件的目的。
广泛使用载体以减少银使用量及防止银在“严酷”条件（600-700 ℃）下烧结也是改性方法之一。
但是载体的堆积有限，不同改性化合物的少量添加（质量分数0.1-10%）可以使银可变的催化性能产生较大差异。
在科技和专利文献中提到过很多不同的添加物，它们能改善并激发银的催化性能[3-14]。
在这其中，研究人员提到改性作用的不同机理：银上金属的电子功能和电子密度改变[7-9]，O 2吸附的差异[3,10]，催化剂表面酸度[11]，催化剂表面的机械堵塞[12]，添加物的固有催化性质[13,14]。
然而，所有这些仅描述了催化剂改性的几个分散的方面，并没有涉及添加物对银催化剂改性影响的差异。
也没有考虑改性物对银催化剂活性位电子状态的影响。
在本文中，我们研究了改性物对银的性能影响的几个方面[15-18]，目的是在甲醇氧化制甲醛工艺中对稀有和稀土金属氧化物反应及银催化剂的电子属性、物化属性和催化属性进行综合研究。
毕业设计论文 外文文献翻译
毕业设计（论文）外文参考文献翻译计算机科学与信息工程系系（院）2008 届题目企业即时通Instant Messaging for Enterprises课题类型技术开发课题来源自选学生姓名许帅专业班级 04计算机科学与技术指导老师王占中职称工程师完成日期：2008年4 月 6 日目录I NSTANT M ESSAGING FOR E NTERPRISE (1)1. Tips (1)2. Introduction (1)3. First things first (2)4.The While-Accept loop (4)5. Per-Thread class (6)6. The Client class (7)企业即时通 (9)1.提示 (9)2.简介 (9)3.首先第一件事 (10)4.监听循环 (11)5.单线程类 (13)6.用户端类 (14)Instant Messaging for Enterprise1. TipsIf Java is, in fact, yet another computer programming language, you may question why it is so important and why it is being promoted as a revolutionary step in computer programming. The answer isn’t immediately obvious if you’re coming from a tr aditional programming perspective. Although Java is very useful for solving traditional standalone programming problems, it is also important because it will solve programming problems on the World Wide Web. What is the Web?The Web can seem a bit of a mys tery at first, with all this talk of “surfing,”“presence,” and “home pages.” It’s helpful to step back and see what it really is, but to do this you must understand client/server systems, another aspect of computing that is full of confusing issues. The primary idea of a client/server system is that you have a central repository of information，some kind of data, often in a database。
毕业设计(论文)外文资料翻译(学生用)
毕业设计外文资料翻译学院：信息科学与工程学院专业：软件工程姓名： XXXXX学号： XXXXXXXXX外文出处： Think In Java (用外文写)附件： 1.外文资料翻译译文；2.外文原文。
附件1：外文资料翻译译文网络编程历史上的网络编程都倾向于困难、复杂，而且极易出错。
程序员必须掌握与网络有关的大量细节，有时甚至要对硬件有深刻的认识。
一般地，我们需要理解连网协议中不同的“层”（Layer）。
而且对于每个连网库，一般都包含了数量众多的函数，分别涉及信息块的连接、打包和拆包；这些块的来回运输；以及握手等等。
这是一项令人痛苦的工作。
但是，连网本身的概念并不是很难。
我们想获得位于其他地方某台机器上的信息，并把它们移到这儿；或者相反。
这与读写文件非常相似，只是文件存在于远程机器上，而且远程机器有权决定如何处理我们请求或者发送的数据。
Java最出色的一个地方就是它的“无痛苦连网”概念。
有关连网的基层细节已被尽可能地提取出去，并隐藏在JVM以及Java的本机安装系统里进行控制。
我们使用的编程模型是一个文件的模型；事实上，网络连接（一个“套接字”）已被封装到系统对象里，所以可象对其他数据流那样采用同样的方法调用。
除此以外，在我们处理另一个连网问题——同时控制多个网络连接——的时候，Java内建的多线程机制也是十分方便的。
本章将用一系列易懂的例子解释Java的连网支持。
15.1 机器的标识当然，为了分辨来自别处的一台机器，以及为了保证自己连接的是希望的那台机器，必须有一种机制能独一无二地标识出网络内的每台机器。
早期网络只解决了如何在本地网络环境中为机器提供唯一的名字。
但Java面向的是整个因特网，这要求用一种机制对来自世界各地的机器进行标识。
为达到这个目的，我们采用了IP（互联网地址）的概念。
IP以两种形式存在着：(1) 大家最熟悉的DNS（域名服务）形式。
我自己的域名是。
所以假定我在自己的域内有一台名为Opus的计算机，它的域名就可以是。
大学毕业设计关于数据库外文翻译2篇
原文：Structure of the Relational database—《Database System Concepts》Part1: Relational Databases The relational model is the basis for any relational database management system (RDBMS).A relational model has three core components: a collection of obj ects or relations, operators that act on the objects or relations, and data integrity methods. In other words, it has a place to store the data, a way to create and retrieve the data, and a way to make sure that the data is logically consistent.A relational database uses relations, or two-dimensional tables, to store the information needed to support a business. Let's go over the basic components of a traditional relational database system and look at how a relational database is designed. Once you have a solid understanding of what rows, columns, tables, and relationships are, you'll be well on your way to leveraging the power of a relational database.Tables, Row, and ColumnsA table in a relational database, alternatively known as a relation, is a two-dimensional structure used to hold related information. A database consists of one or more related tables.Note: Don't confuse a relation with relationships. A relation is essentially a table, and a relationship is a way to correlate, join, or associate two tables.A row in a table is a collection or instance of one thing, such as one employee or one line item on an invoice. A column contains all the information of a single type, and the piece of data at the intersection of a row and a column, a field, is the smallest piece of information that can be retrieved with the database's query language. For example, a table with information about employees might have a column calledLAST_NAME that contains all of the employees' last names. Data is retrieved from a table by filtering on both the row and the column.Primary Keys, Datatypes, and Foreign KeysThe examples throughout this article will focus on the hypothetical work of Scott Smith, database developer and entrepreneur. He just started a new widget company and wants to implement a few of the basic business functions using the relational database to manage his Human Resources (HR) department.Relation: A two-dimensional structure used to hold related information, also known as a table.Note: Most of Scott's employees were hired away from one of his previous employers, some of whom have over 20 years of experience in the field. As a hiring incentive, Scott has agreed to keep the new employees' original hire date in the new database.Row:A group of one or more data elements in a database table that describes a person, place, or thing.Column:The component of a database table that contains all of the data of the same name and type across all rows.You'll learn about database design in the following sections, but let's assume for the moment that the majority of the database design is completed and some tables need to be implemented. Scott creates the EMP table to hold the basic employee information, and it looks something like this:Notice that some fields in the Commission (COMM) and Manager (MGR) columns do not contain a value; they are blank. A relational database can enforce the rule that fields in a column may or may not be empty. In this case, it makes sense for an employee who is not in the Sales department to have a blank Commission field. It also makes sense for the president of the company to have a blank Manager field, since that employee doesn't report to anyone.Field:The smallest piece of information that can be retrieved by the database query language. A field is found at the intersection of a row and a column in a database table.On the other hand, none of the fields in the Employee Number (EMPNO) column are blank. The company always wants to assign an employee number to an employee, and that number must be different for each employee. One of the features of a relational database is that it can ensure that a value is entered into this column and that it is unique. Th e EMPNO column, in this case, is the primary key of the table.Primary Key:A column (or columns) in a table that makes the row in the table distinguishable from every other row in the same table.Notice the different datatypes that are stored in the EMP ta ble: numeric values, character or alphabetic values, and date values.As you might suspect, the DEPTNO column contains the department number for the employee. But how do you know what department name is associated with what number? Scott created the DEPT table to hold the descriptions for the department codes in the EMP table.The DEPTNO column in the EMP table contains the same values as the DEPTNO column in the DEPT table. In this case, the DEPTNO column in the EMP table is considered a foreign key to the same column in the DEPT table.A foreign key enforces the concept of referential integrity in a relational database. The concept of referential integrity not only prevents an invalid department number from being inserted into the EMP table, but it also prevents a row in the DEPT table from being deleted if there are employees still assigned to that department.Foreign Key:A column (or columns) in a table that draws its values from a primary or unique key column in another table. A foreign key assists in ensuring the data integrity of a table. Referential Integrity A method employed by a relational database system that enforces one-to-many relationships between tables.Data ModelingBefore Scott created the actual tables in the database, he went through a design process known as data modeling. In this process, the developer conceptualizes and documents all the tables for the database. One of the common methods for mod eling a database is called ERA, which stands for entities, relationships, and attributes. The database designer uses an application that can maintain entities, their attributes, and their relationships. In general, an entity corresponds to a table in the database, and the attributes of the entity correspond to columns of the table.Data Modeling:A process of defining the entities, attributes, and relationships between the entities in preparation for creating the physical database.The data-modeling process involves defining the entities, defining the relationships between those entities, and then defining the attributes for each of the entities. Once a cycle is complete, it is repeated as many times as necessary to ensure that the designer is capturing what is important enough to go into the database. Let's take a closer look at each step in the data-modeling process.Defining the EntitiesFirst, the designer identifies all of the entities within the scope of the database application.The entities are the pers ons, places, or things that are important to the organization and need to be tracked in the database. Entities will most likely translate neatly to database tables. For example, for the first version of Scott's widget company database, he identifies four entities: employees, departments, salary grades, and bonuses. These will become the EMP, DEPT, SALGRADE, and BONUS tables.Defining the Relationships Between EntitiesOnce the entities are defined, the designer can proceed with defining how each of the entities is related. Often, the designer will pair each entity with every other entity and ask, "Is there a relationship between these two entities?" Some relationships are obvious; some are not.In the widget company database, there is most likely a relations hip between EMP and DEPT, but depending on the business rules, it is unlikely that the DEPT and SALGRADE entities are related. If the business rules were to restrict certain salary grades to certain departments, there would most likely be a new entity that defines the relationship between salary grades and departments. This entity wouldbe known as an associative or intersection table and would contain the valid combinations of salary grades and departments.Associative Table:A database table that stores th e valid combinations of rows from two other tables and usually enforces a business rule. An associative table resolves a many-to-many relationship.In general, there are three types of relationships in a relational database:One-to-many The most common type of relationship is one-to-many. This means that for each occurrence in a given entity, the parent entity, there may be one or more occurrences in a second entity, the child entity, to which it is related. For example, in the widget company database, the DEPT entity is a parent entity, and for each department, there could be one or more employees associated with that department. The relationship between DEPT and EMP is one-to-many.One-to-one In a one-to-one relationship, a row in a table is related to only one or none of the rows in a second table. This relationship type is often used for subtyping. For example, an EMPLOYEE table may hold the information common to all employees, while the FULLTIME, PARTTIME, and CONTRACTOR tables hold information unique to full-time employees, part-time employees, and contractors, respectively. These entities would be considered subtypes of an EMPLOYEE and maintain a one-to-one relationship with the EMPLOYEE table. These relationships are not as common as one-to-many relationships, because if one entity has an occurrence for a corresponding row in another entity, in most cases, the attributes from both entities should be in a single entity.Many-to-many In a many-to-many relationship, one row of a table may be related to man y rows of another table, and vice versa. Usually, when this relationship is implemented in the database, a third entity isdefined as an intersection table to contain the associations between the two entities in the relationship. For example, in a database used for school class enrollment, the STUDENT table has a many-to-many relationship with the CLASS table—one student may take one or more classes, and a given class may have one or more students. The intersection table STUDENT_CLASS would contain the comb inations of STUDENT and CLASS to track which students are in which classes.Once the designer has defined the entity relationships, the next step is to assign the attributes to each entity. This is physically implemented using columns, as shown here for th e SALGRADE table as derived from the salary grade entity.After the entities, relationships, and attributes have been defined, the designer may iterate the data modeling many more times. When reviewing relationships, new entities may be discovered. For exa mple, when discussing the widget inventory table and its relationship to a customer order, the need for a shipping restrictions table may arise.Once the design process is complete, the physical database tables may be created. Logical database design sessions should not involve physical implementation issues, but once the design has gone through an iteration or two, it's the DBA's job to bring the designers "down to earth." As a result, the design may need to be revisited to balance the ideal database implementation versus the realities of budgets andschedules.译文：关系数据库的结构—《数据库系统结构》第一章：关系数据库关系模型是任何关系数据库管理系统（RDBMS）的基础。
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附录A（1）Web数据库概述Internet技术的兴起与发展，使社会大系统中出现了巨大的信息流和宏大的数据流，伴之而来的是Web技术的蓬勃发展，并且很快就占据了Internet技术的主流地位。
而数据库技术发展到今天已相对比较成熟，特别适合于对大量的数据进行组织管理。
由于Internet信息量的巨大，随着Internet的进一步发展，Web技术和数据库技术的结合---Web数据库技术便构成了当今Internet上最流行的新一代信息传播技术，并且已深深地改变着网络应用的面貌。
无论是网络图书馆，网络情报检索系统，网络信息出版，还是基于客户机/服务器模式下的信息管理系统，都离不开Web数据库技术。
对于政府来讲，开展电子政务已成为全球关注的热点。
20世纪90年代信息技术的迅猛发展，特别是互联网技术的普及应用，使电子政务的发展成为当代信息化的最重要的领域之一。
通过Web数据库技术，不仅把Web与数据库的所有优点集中在一起，而且充分利用了大量已有的数据库信息资源，可以使用户在Web浏览器上方便地检索和浏览数据库的内容，所以，将Web技术与数据库相结合，开发动态的Web数据库应用，已是电子政务系统建设的一个必不可少的重要内容。
（2）Web数据库的产生数据库技术是人们长期以来用来存储各种各样信息的手段。
如今，Internet 已经遍布世界的各个角落，整个世界也被连成一体，因此Web数据库技术也随着Internet而渗透到地球的每个角落。
在Internet中，Web是发展最快的技术之一，但只具有信息发布功能的信息共享平台的Web是静态的，服务器响应用户请求，向用户发送文件，用户接收这个文件并把它显示出来，这种工作方式不能实时交互动态信息，客户机和服务器之间的交流是很有限的，满足不了现代商务活动的需求。
后来随着CGI技术的引入，特别是Java和JavaScreipt语言的引入，使得Web页面可以方便地传播动态信息，与用户进行交互活动。
通过应用Java和JavaScript语言，以及后来的VBscript，Perl等语言，可以很方便地设计具有动画，声音，图形图像和种种特殊效果的Web页面。
这种交互式动态Web页面的实现需要大量的数据资源为基础。
为了对数据资源进行高效的存取，数据库系统自然而然就要进入Internet的舞台，于是Web数据库也就应运而生了。
（3）通过Web访问数据库的优点数据库应用的一个重要方面就是数据的访问，但是许多数据库系统目前提供的访问方式，或是一个字符方式的查询界面，或是通过编程方式实现，无论哪种方式都较难使用。
近年来发展的一些RAD工具，如VB，Dephi，Powerbuider等可以方便地开发一些图形界面的访问数据库软件，但是这样的开发工具需要使用者具有编程技术，并且开发的程序不能跨平台运行。
而且，用RAD工具开发的软件，随用户需求的改变，可能需要增添新的功能或在界面上做一些改动。
如果开发的软件使用范围比较广泛的话，那么软件的更新将是一项很大的工作。
而Internet技术的发展，使上述问题有了解决的办法，如果建立了Web服务器，就可以通过Web服务器实现对数据库的访问，上面提到的问题也就可以解决了。
与传统方式相比，通过Web访问数据库的优点在于：1）借用现成的浏览器软件，无需开发数据库前端。
如果能够通过Web来访问数据库，就不需要开发客户端的程序，使用的数据库应用都可以通过浏览器来实现，界面统一，也减少了培训费用，能使广大用户很方便地访问数据库信息。
2）标准统一，开发过程简单。
HTML是Web信息的组织方式，是一种国际标准，开发者甚至只需学习HTML语言，而使用者只需学习一种界面---浏览器界面。
3）交叉平台支持。
几乎在各种操作系统上都有现成的浏览器可供使用，为一个Web服务器书写的HTML文档，可以被所有平台的浏览器所浏览，实现了跨平台操作。
（4）Web数据库系统的基本模型由于Web的易用性，实用性，它很快占据了主导地位，目前已经成为使用最为广泛，最有前途，最有魅力的信息传播技术。
不过，Web服务只是提供了Internet上信息交互的平台，要想实现真正的Internet，就要将人，企业，社会与Internet融为一体，这就要靠信息化应用的实现。
电子商务是以Web网络技术和数据库技术为支撑的，其中Web数据库技术是电子商务的核心技术，支持电子商务已经成为各大厂商竞争的焦点之一，Web数据库的发展成为新的热点和难题。
Web数据库就是能将数据库技术与Web技术很好地融合在一起，使数据库系统成为Web的重要有机组成部分的数据库，能够实现数据库与网络技术的无缝的有机结合。
早期的Internet数据库系统采用的是两层客户机/服务器结构。
这种结构在Internet应用早期获得了极大的发展。
随着Internet应用的普及，由于Internet 上信息资源的复杂性和不规范性，这种两层结构的数据库系统在开发各种网上应用时显得力不从心，表现在无法管理各种网上的复杂的文档型和多媒体型数据资源，缺乏开放的标准，一般不能跨平台运行。
为此就要求对数据库作出一些适应性调整，如增加数据库的面向对象成分以增加处理多种复杂数据类型的能力，增加各种中间件以扩展基于Internet的应用能力，通过应用服务器解释执行各种HTML中嵌入脚本来解决Internet应用中数据库数据的显示，维护，输出以及到HTML的格式转换等。
此时，数据库的基于Internet应用的模式典型地表现为一种三层或四层的多层结构，在这种多层结构体系下，解决了数据库的Internet 的应用的方法问题，使得各种网上数据库数据的发布，检索，维护，数据管理等一般性应用变得更加容易和简单。
（5）Web数据库的发展趋势最近几年，数据库市场飞速发展，电子商务成为各种企业发展的重点之一，甚至有人预言，电子商务极有可能建立起新型的虚拟商业，乃至虚拟工业。
而电子商务是以数据库技术和网络技术为支撑的，其中数据库技术是其核心。
更多的用户已经把数据库的重要性放在十分重要的地位，其主要原因是用户将把应用软件和应用需求放在首位，而应用软件开发直接依赖于数据库开发工具。
另外，由于硬件随着芯片技术的发展越来越缺乏特性，硬件指标将变成次要的考虑因素。
对行业性应用来讲，而今可能是首先选择数据库厂家再考虑硬件厂家了。
正是用户需求的这种变化给数据库厂商提供了新的发展机会。
可以预言，在不久的将来，Web数据库将成为数据库领域研究的热点技术。
1）非结构化数据库信息可以划分为两大类，一类信息能够用数据或统一的结构加以表示，称之为结构化数据，如数字，符号；而另一类信息无法用数字或统一的结构表示，如文本，图像，声音，网页等，称之为非结构化数据。
结构化数据属于非结构化数据，是非结构化数据的特例。
随着网络技术的发展，特别是Internet和Intranet的飞速发展，使得非结构化数据的数量日趋增大。
这时，主要有于管理结构化数据的关系数据库的局限性暴露得越来越明显。
因而，数据库技术相应地进入了“后关系数据库时代”，进入基于网络应用的非结构化数据库时代。
所谓非结构化数据库，简单地说，就是字段可变的数据库。
2）异构数据库系统相互关联的数据库可以很容易地被归纳在一起，创建一个单一的虚拟数据库，也叫做异构数据库系统。
异构数据库系统是相关的多个数据库系统的集合，可以实现数据的共享和透明访问。
每个数据库系统在加入异构数据库系统之前本身就已存在，拥有自己的DBMS。
它的异构性主要体现在以下几个方面：计算机体系结构的异构；基础操作系统的异构；DBMS本身的异构。
它的目标在于实现不同数据库之间的数据之间的数据信息资源，硬件设备资源和人力资源的合并和共享。
目前，异构数据库系统的集成以及建立在此基础之上的数据仓库，数据挖掘已经成为网络数据库技术研究的重点之一。
著名的国内外数据库厂商也将异构数据库系统作为竞争的焦点，研究如何将原来传统的，可能分布于各地的多个关系数据库集成起来，进行改进和发展，形成虚拟异构数据库系统和数据仓库，更好地为企业信息化，电子商务服务。
（6）Web数据库技术简介从技术发展的角度来看，以前通过浏览器访问数据库的唯一渠道是CGI方式。
随后出现了SAPI和JDBC等技术方案，近来又流行ASP、JSP技术。
下面对这些技术逐一进行介绍。
1）CGICGI是Web服务器运行时外部程序的规范，按照CGI编写的程序可以扩展服务器的功能，完成服务器本身不能完成的工作，外部程序执行时可以生成HTML 文档，并将文档返回Web服务器。
CGI应用程序能够与浏览器进行交互作用，还可以通过数据库的API与数据库服务器等外部数据源进行通信，如一个CGI程序可以从数据库服务器中获取数据，然后格式化为HTML，文档后发送给浏览器，也可以将从浏览器获得的数据放到数据库中，几乎所有的服务器软件都支持CGI，开发者可以使用任何一种Web服务器内置语言编写CGI，其中包括流行的C，C++，VB和Dephi等。
按照应用环境的不同，CGI又可以分为标准CGI和间接CGI。
CGI程序应用是作为一个独立的外部应用来运行的，与服务器上的其他程序竞争处理器资源，这将导致运行速度减慢。
而且，用CGI开发支持Web的应用也是一个比较困难的数据库过程中，连接状态的管理也是很重要的。
如果没有状态管理，那么浏览器的每一次请求，都需要一个连接的建立与释放的过程，效率较低。
CGI不提供状态管理功能，另外，必须用某个特定数据库服务器的专用SQL 语言来手工编写数据库接口，其移植性也不好。
2）JDBCJava的推出，使Web有了活力和动感。
Internet用户可以从Web服务器上下载Java小程序到本地浏览器上运行。
这些下载的小程序就像本地程序一样，可独立地访问本地和其他服务器资源，而最初的Java语言并没有数据库访问的功能，随着应用的深入，要求Java提供数据库访问功能的呼声越来越高。
为了防止出现对Java在数据库访问方面各不相同的扩展，JavaSoft公司制定了JDBC，作为Java语言的数据库访问API，JDBC是第一个标准的，支持Java数据库的API，它使得Java程序与数据库连接更为容易。
JDBC在功能上与ODBC相同，给开发人员提供一个统一的数据库访问接口。
目前，JDBC已经得到了许多厂商的支持，包括Borland，Oracle和Sybase等公司。
当前流行的大多数数据库系统都推出了自己的JDBC驱动程序。
3）JSPJSP是Java Server Pages的简称,是Sun公司在Java语言基础上开发的动态网页制作技术。
JSP结合Servlet和JavaBean技术,将网页逻辑与网页设计和显示分离,支持可重用的基于组件的设计,使基于Web应用程序的开发变得迅速而简单。