In building the site, consider adding a common menu for navigating quickly to other major sections of the site, and to Home, Search, What's New, etc. Users enter models of their data that represent how their information is organized, link the project's documents to the model and publish the project as a web site. More than just accessing copies, users now check out data to work on from the web site and check it back in when finished. Product Data Servers Vendors have always desired that their products be major product data repositories. As awareness of the potential for web accessed and shared data increased, software vendors began to re-organize their products as servers.
Servers handle requests for product data from other applications, called clients.
The applications of product data servers to engineering are increasing. Many CAD vendors are recasting the product data authoring environment to serve up product data. Increasingly, servers are being offered that store specialized representations. Streaming the model improves the reality of a 3D model by allowing interactive navigation. Other solutions, such as VRML, require the whole model be downloaded before interacting with it.