Basic HTML version of Foils prepared April 4 1999

Foil 5 Simplistic Object Web View

From The Document Object Model - Universal Access - Other Objects - CORBA XML Jini JavaScript etc. Tango Seminar to DoD Modernization MSRC -- April 6 1999. by Geoffrey C. Fox


1 The Object Web Signifies the merger of distributed object and web technologies
2 The Pragmatic Object Web 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 object is a Web Page
5 The richest available object model is the Web Document Object Model or DOM
6 JavaScript is one language to manipulate this DOM
7 Web Browsers render this object
8 Web Servers broker this object
9 As Web Pages are natural user interface to ALL objects, XML extensions to web pages reflects all objects ....

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