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Foil 10 Why is WebWindows a Good Idea?

From Overview of Web Technologies for "Programming for the Web" CPS406/606 Fall 97 -- August 25,1997. by Nancy McCracken, Tom Scavo, Geoffrey Fox *

1 Most importantly, WebWindows defines a much higher level and service-oriented interface for the programmer
  • You are perhaps a factor of 10 more "productive" than when programming directly to guts of UNIX or Windows
2 It is based on open interfaces and so instead of one entity producing a complete application
  • As Microsoft does with Microsoft Word
3 One can build a complete application as a set of modules where each module comes from a different vendor/internet programmer and they inter-operate through common Web Interfaces such as VRML, HTML, JavaBean Rules
  • So one person builds basic system; another the spell-checker; a third the fancy alphabet; another the graphics subsystem and so on!

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