Webstructor Language

Webstructor uses Object-Relational Language (ORL) for everything.

Standalone Applications save data in textual files using ORL and load data from these files.
Peer-to-Peer Applications communicate one with other using ORL texts streamed via TCP/IP sockets.
Web Servers and Servlets send ORL texts to Applets via HTTP.
Applets submit ORL texts to Servlets via HTTP.
Users interact with Applications using Mind Console - entering ORL texts into it.

Here is Introduction to ORL, which gives understanding of the most important features of this language. At this point, more detailed documentation on ORL is in process of creation.

Webstructor engine implements relatively small subset of ORL. This implementation is based on such entities as Thing and Property. Thing stands for Class and for Object at the same time (see more details on this in introduction to ORL) while Property stands for Attribute as well as for Value of Attribute.

Old "WhyORL?" manifest describes benefits of using ORL for knowledge representation.

More details may be found only in ORL Specification in Russian.

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