Web Broker components (located on the Internet tab of the Tool palette) enable you to create event handlers that are associated with a specific Uniform Resource Identifier (URI). When processing is complete, you can programmatically construct HTML or XML documents and transfer them to the client. You can use Web Broker components for cross-platform application development. 

Frequently, the content of Web pages is drawn from databases. You can use Internet components to automatically manage connections to databases, allowing a single DLL to handle numerous simultaneous, thread-safe database connections. 

The following sections in this series explain how you use the Web Broker components to create a Web server application.