I would like to explain using industry standard terminology but unfortunately I don't know any industry standard terminology. I won't explain my entire situation but I have been in a rush learning web services.
Anyways, this is what I need to do for now. I need to grab data from an access file, and display it on a web site in a dynamic way (this isn't just so people can see what's in the access file). I don't care how this should be done but I just need an effecient way to have a table of data arrive in a web page.
As for what "using a server response file" means:
A server response file is little more than an html file that has an extra feature of using replacement tags. These will call functions from an ATL server which can replace the tag with anything using the same output stream syntax you use for consol apps.
I'm sorry I have just answered my own question (I just have been a little unfocused with the unusual amount of deadlines in just a two week span).
Still it would be nice to know a method of getting a massive amount of data (such as a table, any sort of table) to a web page according to some criteria specified by the request.