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"LOTONtech's WebDataKit provides me with priceless capabilities to access the vast amount of valuable data that is published on the web" - Ewin Barnett, Software Developer, Columbia, Missouri.

What is the WebDataKit?

The WebDataKit is a Java^tm2 solution comprising: a Structured Query Language for HTML and XML data, a JDBC-like Java API called WebDataBaseConnectivity, and a customizable Search Engine kernel.

Why is the WebDataKit such a good idea?

Knowledge is power. With the WebDataKit you can extract web based information automatically, turn it into knowledge, and harness the power!

How would you like your portal to collect up-to-date information from multiple web sites, combine it in meaningful combinations, and present it in new ways? Just run an SQL query from within your Java Servlet using the WDBC Java API. 

Are you building a search engine, data mining tool, or knowledge based application to make sense of the wealth of information on the web? Our Search Engine kernel will traverse the web from any given starting point, which could be an existing online search engine, directory or news group archive.You customize the search behavior via a plug-in SearchHandler. You could search news groups by starting the search at a URL like this: http://groups.google.com/groups?q=mykeyword&site=groups

SQL and WDBC

WDBC is a Java^tm2 adapter that lets you run SQL queries against live web pages as though you were querying relational database tables using JDBC. It uses an enhanced version of SQL that allows hierarchical HTML and XML data to be accessed according to the flat two-dimensional relational database paradigm.

You can take a web page containing the data you want...

..query it using SQL...

and capture the results into your Java application, applet or servlet like this:

ResultSet rs=SqlEngine.executeQuery("SELECT ... AS name, ... AS price FROM http://www.shares-R-us.com WHERE ...");

while (rs.next()) {

  String name=rs.getString("name");

  String price=rs.getString("price");

}