Basic HTML version of Foils prepared May 18 99

Foil 3 Simplistic Object Web View

From Education, Research and Institutional Models for Universities in the Next Millenium Seminar at University of Houston -- May 10 99. by Geoffrey C. Fox


The Object Web Signifies the merger of Distributed Object and Web technologies
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)
An "object" is an entity that can be
  • registered, addressed, located
  • has properties and methods
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
Computers, Computer programs, databases, networked instruments are other objects but these are all viewed through a web page ......



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