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Foil 61 General WebScript and Agents

From Fall 95 Vision for Evolution of World Wide Web Technology Several Presentations -- September 95. by Geoffrey C. Fox * See also color IMAGE

More generally, this Middleware Layer 2 will be rather complex and populated by a spectrum of proprietary (e.g. Telescript, ScriptX, CORBA) and public (e.g. Perl, Tcl, Harvest, Java, VRML) scripted languages, brokers, agents, wrappers, mediators etc. see Screens
In WebWork, we refer collectively by WebScript to the whole ensable of these models.
At the current stage, it isn't clear if WebScript as a common intermediate language is a practical concept. An alternative is to live in the multi-language Web medium and emply interoperability agents to translate between various protocols.
Practical initial implementation platfrom for this dual approch is provided in WebWork by an integrated collection of WebTools CASE tools based HySource Worlds for various languages.


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