Basic HTML version of Foils prepared September 13 1999

Foil 3 Simplistic Object Web View

From Integration of Information Technology and Computational Science in Education and Research Computer Science Seminar -- August 27 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 and the richest available object model is the Web Document Object Model or DOM
  • JavaScript is language to manipulate this DOM
  • Web Browsers render this object
  • Web Servers broker this object
5 Computers, Computer programs, databases, networked instruments are other objects but these are all viewed through a web page ......

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