•Provisional IT2 Syllabus
–XML and some exemplar applications such as MathML
–More on IT1
technologies such as Dynamic HTML with W3C
(World Wide Web Consortium) Document Object
Model
–Virtual
Machines and Java from pico to enterprise
editions (Smart Cards to Cell Phones to
PC’s to Servers)
–Security for Java and for heterogeneous Systems (Public Key infrastructure, Kerberos)
–The four approaches to the Object Web
•CORBA from the Object Management Group
•SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) from W3C – the pure web approach
•RMI, Enterprise
Javabeans (EJB) and Jini –
the pure Java approach
•COM from Microsoft
–Component
and event based programming –
Javabeans on the client; CORBA and EJB
on the server
–Graphics on the Web: VRML X3D and SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics)
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