IBM VisualAge for Java Web Publishing Web Publishing products make existing documents available for the web without any conversion of the document contents. Web publishing products provide a navigational shell to organize documents that are automatically converted from their native format to a format that is more useful for web presentation. Document contents are typically edited using standard desktop tools. These products are built to manage change within web sites. They typically include page templates that may be applied to the entire site at one time to develop a consistent look and feel.
Many products use small components and to build pages for display either on demand or in batch.
The products are designed to present different content to different types of users, based upon user profiles. The Internet is the file system. These products tend to make the operating system disappear by allowing files to be saved directly to the Internet. The idea is to minimize the number of components with which a user must interact, or that requires systems support. Informix Data Sheet i.