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Foil 38 Some Technical and System Comments

From Tango Futures: XML for Portals, Web-based Collaboration and Distance Education Rice University Tango Tutorial -- October 18 1999. by Geoffrey C. Fox


1 There is a lot of TangoInteractive Software lying around to implement collaboration and so natural to implement customization in Java or JavaScript as an alternative to XSL
  • 15,000 lines JavaScript and a lot more Java
2 Note JavaScript very fast but phenomenological
  • Undefined thread behaviour etc. makes for experimental programming
  • However there is usually way of getting things to work
3 Note that on detects events at presentation layer but must share at object layer -- only works if this object- presentation layer connection well defined
4 XML Content
5 Pages
6 Events Trapped
7 by XML JSSB
8 define object state
9 Converted by Browser etc.
10 Shared Object

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