Components of Technology Cauldron
Internet is universal delivery infrastructure
XML is universal data structure (or object serialization mechanism)
Java is universal programming language
Distributed Objects are basic electronic building blocks
Jini is universal mechanism for registration and look up of distributed objects
Databases are useful way of persistently storing and managing objects
Pagers/PalmTops/Cell Phones/PC’s render objects
W3C DOM describes Web Pages -- the universal view of all (information) objects
Messages or Events link objects together (Java programs this producing information in XML format)