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Foil 12 We have the Web Tools in Place - I !

From And the Future is ........: The Use of Java and the Web in Scientific Computing Hefei Computational Science and Beijing Web Tutorial -- May 27 and 30 1997. by Geoffrey C. Fox *
1 Web Technology is still uncertain and there may be major changes but "enough" capabilities are in place to build very general (~all) applications
  • MicroSoft v Sun / Netscape uncertainities
2 Rapidly evolving Standards and a mechanism to get rapid consensus
3 Fortran 77 -> Fortran90 --> HPF --> Fortran2000 (23 years)
4 VRML Idea (1994) --> VRML1 deployed (95) --> VRML2 deployed (early 97) (2.3 years)
  • VRML2 (3D datastructures and Java(Script) enabled methods) is more sophisticated than Fortran ?
  • Java development time was also fast compared to "traditional" standard adoption times
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