Using kbmMW™ in a web deployed ActiveX component.

Their website has secure client ordering and report delivery using ASP, Java Script and Delphi Web Broker.

We are currently building an employee section primarily with ASP, for use primarily by their investigators in the field.

One of the requirements is to be able to input timesheets and upload dictation and video files. The timesheet entry required some fairly complex data entry validation and some extensive look ups for billing codes and activity types. Some timesheet entries trigger an automatic FTP upload of accompanying video or dictation files.

The extensive look ups and functionality precluded building the page with Javascript . Using separate ASP page calls for look ups was not a very workable or elegant option.

An embedded Active X component would provide the functionality that was needed. The next issue was how to provide a secure database connection. A direct TCP/IP database connection over the internet was obviously out of the question.

We used kbmMW™ as the transport medium between the ActiveX component and the central server. Firewall control is critical and we wanted to have the connection come through the web server to an ISAPI kbmMW™ server.

The ActiveX web interface has been built and is currently in beta testing against a non ISAPI kbmMW™ server on the client intranet. We are working on getting the ISAPI kbmMW™ server working and should have that up soon.

We chose kbmMW™ to supply the database connectivity because it has good performance times, and allows encryption of the streams. The security issues made it preferable to using web services which was also something we looked at. We have had very good experiences with kbmMemTable and this was an initial factor in looking at kbmMW™ as a reliable resource.