StoryServer was the name the company
Vignette gave to
CNET
''CNET'' (short for "Computer Network") is an American media website that publishes reviews, news, articles, blogs, podcasts, and videos on technology and consumer electronics globally. ''CNET'' originally produced content for radio and televi ...
's web publishing application "PRISM" when they bought it.
It used a document publishing model to move templates through various workflow stages, and was thus quite useful to the newly formed Web publishing world.
The templates were defined in the
Tcl
TCL or Tcl or TCLs may refer to:
Business
* TCL Technology, a Chinese consumer electronics and appliance company
**TCL Electronics, a subsidiary of TCL Technology
* Texas Collegiate League, a collegiate baseball league
* Trade Centre Limited, a ...
language, using extensions that made StoryServer's internal state and database available.
The defining attribute of StoryServer was the
caching
In computing, a cache ( ) is a hardware or software component that stores data so that future requests for that data can be served faster; the data stored in a cache might be the result of an earlier computation or a copy of data stored elsewher ...
system which allowed access to pre-generated pages to completely bypass the content generation system, and thus produce these pages as fast as the underlying hardware and
Web server
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software could send them to the network. This gained StoryServer a degree of scalability that most products were incapable of matching.
StoryServer version 4 was released in July 1998 and introduced
XML support.
After StoryServer 4, Vignette changed the name of the product to "V5", and has named each subsequent version in the same manner. V5 and V6 added support for templates that used
Java and
ASP
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* Asp, part of Densbüren, Aargau, Switzerland
* Aspe (''Asp'' in Valencian), Alicante, Spain
* Asp Lake, a lake in Minnesota
Animals
* Asp (fish)
* Asp (snake), in antiquity, one of several venomous snakes
** ''Cera ...
rather than tcl.
StoryServer-based websites often use a distinctive page address style in which the filename consists of several numbers separated by commas. An example URL of this form would be
'http://example.com/foo/0,1245,,00.html'.
See also
*
Information and Content Exchange Information and Content Exchange (ICE) is an XML-based protocol used for content syndication via the Internet. By using XML both sender and receiver have an agreed-upon language in which to communicate. Using a client–server architecture, ICE de ...
*
Vignette Corporation
References
Content management systems
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