Abstract: A system for and method of using component-based development and web tools to support a distributed data management system. The system comprises a run-time evolvable distributed database management architecture including a data storage layer including a database management system for managing a database, a dynamic generator of an HTML-based interface to the data storage layer based upon user preferences and database-specific information, and a control module including one or more autonomous business components, the control module for creating at run-time a workflow sequence for executing the autonomous business components and executables of the data storage layer in response to instructions received via the interface in order to retrieve and format data from the database.