The users of the World Wide Web are demanding more and more sophistication from the Web pages for applications like electronic commerce and online digital libraries. There is a strong need for a new programming model in which Web browsers become interactive clients containing application logic, while Web pages become behavioral servers. The popularity of Java attests to this demand.
Distributed objects can provide the required model; Compound document frameworks provide the capabilities of converting static Web pages into multimedia rich interactive clients, and Distributed object architectures provide the client-server capabilities required for servicing applications on millions of servers.
This chapter was only an overview of the different types of technology available and emerging in the field of distributed objects . Considering the rate at which new developments are taking place in this field, it is quite possible that some of the content of this chapter may become out of date very soon or there might be a need to add new content. The references provided at the end of the chapter should be helpful, if you find that to be the case. In fact, why shouldn't that be the case? After all, we are trying to make the World Wide Web a more dynamic medium for communication and information dissemination by using all the technology available to us.
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