We describe some concepts that will underlie the development of emerging distributed object based systems |
What is the Web Document Object Model and why is Dynamic HTML (DHTML) intriguing and XML critical |
Why is JavaScript non trivial as the language to capture changes in document object structure and to choose appropriate rendering
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Where do CORBA and Jini fit in? |
We define the Pragmatic Object Web as the emerging synthesis of multiple object models |
We describe the importance of the Web as a source of information objects and as a mechanism for invoking general server side objects |
We stress the important role of both Asynchronous and Synchronous collaboration and the web and web-based collaboration allows one to implement it. |
We use ASC Gateway project as an example of hybrid object systems |