Basic HTML version of Foils prepared 18 August 1997

Foil 8 Why is WebWindows a Good Idea?

From Master Set of Foils for Web Programming Course Jackson State University Mississippi -- Fall Semester 97. by Nancy McCracken, Geoffrey C. Fox, Tom Scavo *

Most importantly, WebWindows defines a much higher level and service-oriented interface for the programmer
  • You are perhaps a factor of 10 more "productive" than when programming directly to guts of UNIX or Windows
It is based on open interfaces and so instead of one entity producing a complete application
  • As Microsoft does with Microsoft Word
One can build a complete application as a set of modules where each module comes from a different vendor/internet programmer and they inter-operate through common Web Interfaces such as VRML, HTML, JavaBean Rules
  • So one person builds basic system; another the spell-checker; a third the fancy alphabet; another the graphics subsystem and so on!



© Northeast Parallel Architectures Center, Syracuse University, npac@npac.syr.edu

If you have any comments about this server, send e-mail to webmaster@npac.syr.edu.

Page produced by wwwfoil on Thu Aug 21 1997