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Foil 12 Simplistic Object Web View

From Overview of Pragmatic Object Web Systems and Technologies ADMI Tutorial Duluth Minnesota -- June 3 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
The richest available object model is the Web Document Object Model or DOM
JavaScript is one language to manipulate this DOM
Web Browsers render this object
Web Servers broker this object
As Web Pages are natural user interface to ALL objects, XML extensions to web pages reflects all objects ....

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