Basic HTML version of Foils prepared July 9 99

Foil 20 Simplistic Object Web View

From Distance Education: How to do it DoD HPC Modernization Users Group Tutorial Monterey California, ACM Java Grande San Francisco, EDMEDIA Seattle -- June 7 99, June 14 99, June 20 99. by Geoffrey C. Fox


1 The Object Web Signifies the merger of distributed object and web technologies
2 The Pragmatic Object Web (POW) asks us to take the best of CORBA (Industry Standard) COM (Microsoft PC Standard) Java (Web Software Infrastructure) and W3C (XML)
3 An "object" is an entity that can be
  • registered, addressed, located
  • has properties and methods
4 The most common electronic object is a Web Page
5 The richest available object model is the Web Document Object Model or DOM
6 JavaScript is language to manipulate this DOM
7 Web Browsers render this object
8 Web Servers broker this object
9 XML labels POW objects and is converted with style sheets to HTML as GUI for object

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