The Object Web Signifies the merger of Distributed Object and Web technologies
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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)
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An "object" is an entity that can be
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registered, addressed, located
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has properties and methods
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The most common object is a Web Page and the richest available object model is the Web Document Object Model or DOM
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JavaScript is language to manipulate this DOM
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Web Browsers render this object
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Web Servers broker this object
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Computers, Computer programs, databases, networked instruments are other objects but these are all viewed through a web page ......
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