Www-Link^TM is a report generating application. It can gather data from any DDE server program, and will generate a set of HTML compliant files. These files can then be viewed by common Web Browsers such as Netscape Navigator, and Microsoft Internet Explorer.

The majority of existing DDE applications will receive data in a parallel method. This means that several points of data are being received at the same time. This method will work for a small number of data points but when several hundred points are accessed, most applications will crash.

In order to make Www-Link^TM as robust as possibly, we have implemented our patent pending concepts of serial communication. Www-Link^TM requests only one data value at a time. This ensures that Www-Link^TM will not get overloaded with large numbers of points.

The majority of existing HTML compliant programs, commonly called CGI scripts, will be executed once for every client who is viewing the data. What this means is that if there are hundreds of clients viewing the data, then the script will be called hundreds of times. This can be a big burden on any processing system, and it may even crash.

Www-Link^TM is designed more like a scheduled task. This means that no matter how many clients are viewing the data, the 'script' only executes once every period (minute intervals.) With the script called in such a way, we have ensured that the DDE data is being accessed in a truly serial method.