What’s the Point I
There is a “philosophy/architecture” called building “Portals to X”
- This is equivalent to building a complete customizable environment for X in terms of a web client interface and an “object web” middleware
There are distributed object technologies to label register and look up objects
- CORBA COM Java WIDL (XML)
There is a language Java which is more productive than previous languages such as Fortran or C++
- It is currently language of choice for all middleware -- whatever object model
- In around 2 years it will achieve numerical performance similar to Fortran
There is a data structure metalanguage called XML which will allow the generation of application specific data specifications