Basic HTML version of Foils prepared May 18 99

Foil 6 Simplistic Object Web View

From Distributed Objects for GEM General Earthquake Simulation Project Meeting JPL Pasadena -- April 22 99. 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 language to manipulate this DOM
7 Web Browsers render this object
8 Web Servers broker this object

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