how they create?

[Mandar Khire]

If i want to create project like news channel website, means in server i use java program which help me to enter news on database & show some link on main page for client & that news goes to client by request/response method in html format. Is my way is right?
Then first i get in mind is bbc.co.uk which is leading news website. But when i see only text news also on their website is on .stm format, i got surprise. & get question in my mind How they create? Is they use .net or something like that which is made by microsoft?
I search for that extension & i get following info

Description of .stm file type is Data file saved by Microsoft Exchange Server in conjunction with .EDB files; used by the Exchange information store, which is comprised of:
1. Priv1.edb
2. Priv1.stm
3. Pub1.edb
4. Pub1.stm
STM files store streamed native Internet content; new messages are saved to the STM file on the mail server until they are accessed by a user's mail client; when messages are accessed by a MAPI client, they are transferred to the EDB file and converted to the native Exchange format.
& Description of .EDB file type is Database created by Microsoft Exchange Server; serves as the main repository for the mailbox data saved by Exchange; stores both in-process and stored non-SMTP messages; formatted using a b-tree structure, which includes a top level node and many child nodes.
Priv1.edb and Pub1.edb are the main EDB files used for the Exchange information store; they each have a corresponding .STM file that contain SMTP messages.

Now i got question again is their any way that we can create program like they create? because nothing is impossible, & there is a way where is will.

[Jesper de Jong]

I don't know what software exactly the BBC uses.

What you are describing is a content management system (CMS). Content management systems can ofcourse be implemented in many different languages and environments, and there are also CMS'es that are implemented in Java.

[Ulf Dittmer]

I doubt that the extension .stm has anything to do with email files. A web application is free to use whatever file extensions it chooses in the URLs it uses. If you're familiar with Java web apps you may have encountered *.do URLs used by the Struts framework. Those URLs do not point to actual files; it's an abstract way to point to content. I think I've seen .stm URLs used by IIS/ASP.Net.

[Paul Clapham]

However since bbc.co.uk is running on an Apache server on Unix, it's not too likely that ASP.Net is involved.