Basic HTML version of Foils prepared 13 January 98

Foil 10 Components of a Basic Web System

From Introduction to Object Web Technologies (Internetics) Basic Information Track Computational Science Course CPS616 -- Spring Semester 1998. by Geoffrey C. Fox


1 Host with Web Server
2 and attached CGI Script
3 in Perl or Java
4 Perhaps linking to a Backend
5 service such as a database
6 or digital video server
7 Host holds HTML files
8 typically stored in a
9 UNIX/Windows NT
10 file system but could also
11 be in a database such as
12 Oracle or Microsoft Access
13 Network trying to
14 provide Quality of
15 Service
16 and using
17 compression
18 to make better
19 use of available
20 bandwidth
21 Client with a Web
22 Browser displaying
23 "simple" HTML Text
24 and Images obtained
25 from host.
26 Client runs JavaScript
27 (from HTML documents)
28 and Java Interpreters
29 (acting on downloaded
30 JavaVM bytecodes)
31 Java and JavaScript
32 give general dynamic
33 behavior
34 Backend
35 Service

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