a common storage with suitable locking mechanisms for a kiosk system and persistent storage of the structure and data content alternative realizations are the application of a second generation database such as db2 2 registered trademark of the ibm corporation the employment of an object oriented database e g 34 objectstore 34 use of files and network file systems and the realization of an independent database optimized for this case to guarantee the desired fast response behaviour a 34 cache memory 34 based system was created after experimental checking with connection both to a relational database as well as to a file system the control over the system is effected by the aforementioned engine this represents the main item of the run time system and runs a kiosk for this it reads the structure information of the kiosk from the database and converts it to the corresponding news to the items the engine accesses the database and the functions of the graphics interface directly for example to generate the windows in which the items appear if because of a user entry an interactive item requires an action by the system for example transfer to another page of the kiosk then this item initiates the implementation in which it sends a corresponding order to the engine the engine then determines from the database which items of the kiosk are affected by an action and again sends these the corresponding news its display or other functions then executes the affected item itself the engine is thus.