The World-Wide  Web has  become a  very popular  media for accessing information
from various sources. Structured  information is typically stored  in databases,
therefore  it is  natural to  use the  WWW for  accessing relational  or object
-oriented databases. Some commercial database producers are already offering WWW
Gateways for their products (e.g. [4]) and applications for accessing  databases
via the Web have been  developed, [2,7]. In this work  we go a step further  and
use  the WWW  not only  for querying  databases but  as interface  for database
applications performing all kinds of  data manipulations. We describe WWW4GL,  a
language supporting the easy development of such programs based on the tradition
of fourth generation languages [1].