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Foil 4 Some Critical Emerging Web Technologies

From Possible Role of Web Technologies in Advertising Breakfast Meeting of Syracuse AdClub -- Dec 5,96. by Geoffrey Fox * See also color IMAGE

Java -- a partially interpreted C++ like language (script) allowing fully interactive clients which execute applets.
  • Likely to become dominant Software Engineering Language in future
  • And even more likely to be dominant language for science and engineering as can be compiled efficiently
JavaScript -- A fully interpreted Web Systems integration Language
VRML -- a 3 dimensional HTML allowing universal description of physical objects and allowing interchange of virtual worlds, commercial product designs etc. Latest version 2.0 suuports interactivity
Web-linked Databases such as Oracle connected to emerging JDBC (Java Database Connection)


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