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Foil 3 What's the Point I

From Distributed Objects and Portals for Earthquake Science GEM Meeting NPAC -- June 24-25 99. by Geoffrey C. Fox


1 There is a "philosophy/architecture" called building "Portals to X"
  • This is equivalent to building a complete customizable environment for X in terms of a web client interface and an "object web" middleware
2 There are distributed object technologies to label register and look up objects
  • CORBA COM Java WIDL (XML)
3 There is a language Java which is more productive than previous languages such as Fortran or C++
  • It is currently language of choice for all middleware -- whatever object model
  • In around 2 years it will achieve numerical performance similar to Fortran
4 There is a data structure metalanguage called XML which will allow the generation of application specific data specifications

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