Basic HTML version of Foils prepared April 17 1999

Foil 11 Simplistic Object Web View

From Minnowbrook -- the Virtual University After Dinner Talk to Dedicated AFOSR Research Team -- April 15 1999. 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 language to manipulate this DOM
Web Browsers render this object
Web Servers broker this object
Jini is neatest registration/lookup technology -- do even better with XML and JavaScript ....



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