| Third party legacy software becomes now rapidly part of the expanding Web using integration/interface/wrapper technologies. |
| Currently the most popular interface technique is via Netscape plug-ins at the client side and the corresponding LiveWire gateways at the server side. |
| Finer grain linkage between distributed applications was previously addressed by CORBA/OLE protocols. With Java taking over the C++ domain, these object broker techniques (focused on compiled OO languages) might be eventually of decreasing relevance. |
| In the near term, companies will require support for object level interaction between their legacy systems and Web software modules. |
| We learn from private communication with Sun that JavaWorks (a HotJava based CASE toolkit for professional Java development) will offer CORBA based interfaces or "C++ gateways". |