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Foil 17 The Pragmatic Object Web I

From Technology Supercharging Knowledge: The Next Generation of Learning Communities 8th Annual Scholarship and Community Conference University of Houston (Hilton Hotel) -- October 7 1998. by Geoffrey C. Fox
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 author HTML pages
  • Can use Oracle or any standard "relational" database
  • Put up a token fight against Microsoft -- abhor Access

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