FAR

Formulas and Rules

Margaret Burnett, Oregon State University

An end-user language to offer and deliver e-services. The novel aspects of FAR are its support of small e-services and its multiparadigm approach to combining ideas from spreadsheets and rule-based programming with drag-and-drop web page layout devices. To use FAR, an end user lays out a custom-tailored web page, and uses formulas and rules to determine content dynamically at document delivery time. The web page (or actually, an XML page which can be translated to a web page) will be created and delivered when a request for the service arrives.