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I have a Windows Embedded Compact 7.0 based development board which has a HTTPD webserver and SQL Compact DB,

Objective: My task is to deploy few HTML5 pages and create C++ component for DB access.

Current solution : Currently we are thinking of CGI interface between HTML5 and C++ component, not sure if this is possible , but our vendor (where this board bought from) confirmed that WinCE can support ISAPI (much faster CGI).

I would like to know if we are in a right direction? or Is there a alternate solution to this? Asking this question because I came across this article in Code project about http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/336018/Building-C-Applications-with-HTML[Building C++ Application with HTML5] which talks about usage of Webkit and Qt. Please let me know if I can explore as per this article. Can this work under Embedded-based environment. Thanks in advance for your replies.

Jaiganesh
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It's one path. This article uses QT to intercept requests, so you are basically implementing your own web server

I don't know about your requirements but you may have quite some work if you wanna do it by yourself (implementing Sessions, Authentication, Http methods, SSL, etc).

In my case, I deactivated the standard HTTPD server and used Padarn for a C# backend and I found it to be ok, but it's not free.

I didn't spend much time looking for C/C++ servers but I believe setting up a pre-made web-server is a good path path unless that article meets your requirements.

Eduardo Wada
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