The Pragmatic Object Web I
What about the four different object models swirling around in today’s technology cauldron?
- XML from W3C is easiest and great for documents
- Java Jini/RMI from Sun is most elegant
- CORBA from OMG is most powerful
- COM from Microsoft is highest performance and best developed and Gates will soon crush us all …
So don’t settle on any one of these but put all your material in a database; host your database with a server (called a broker in CORBA) and use “middleware” (an Enterprise Javabean and JDBC - the Java Database Connectivity standard) to map between models
- Do NOT produce HTML pages
- Can use Oracle or any standard “relational” database
- Put up a token fight against Microsoft -- abhor Access